bug#75354: (29.4; eww buffer is not displayed correctly when used from bookmark-jump )

[Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>,  75354@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:52:32 +0000
>> 
>> > This is contrary to what you originally wrote (with which I agree):
>> 
>> Yes, after deeper search I found that `bookmark--jump-via` is behaving
>> like this AFAIU:
>>  - It calls the handler which creates a new buffer related to bookmark.
>>  - It then displays the current-buffer (the one before jumping to bmk) in
>>  a window according to DISPLAY-FUNCTION and make the bookmark buffer current.
>> 
>> This approach is OK as long as the handler fn doesn't try do do one part
>> of the job (window handling) itself, which is not the case at least with
>> eww and w3m.  It is as well counter intuitive, DISPLAY-FUNCTION should
>> be called on the buffer generated by bookmark and not the contrary, so
>> this change makes the code simpler and easier to understand.
>> 
>> > By contrast, the change you propose now will affect all the uses of
>> > bookmarks, everywhere,
>> 
>> Yes, this is intended, in addition of fixing eww, it fixes w3m and also
>> the quit function of eww (actually broken).
>> 
>> > which is riskier, given how many different variants of bookmark usage
>> > are out there.
>> 
>> Tested here on many different kinds of bookmarks and work as expected
>> unlike the current code.
>
> OK, thanks.  Let's leave this for a few days to give people time to
> post comments if they have them.

Ok, I will make changes to commit message (needs * lisp/bookmark.el (...):
bla) and also when-let => when-let* to fit with emacs-30+.

Thanks.

-- 
Thierry

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