Re: eww and bookmarks

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2020-05-25, at 14:51, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>>> Those that like EWW would already be doing:
>>>   (setq browse-url-browser-function 'eww-browse-url)
>> Ok, so you would make the handler call `browse-url-browser-function',
>> and not eww unconditionally.  I think I would prefer that behavior, too.
>
> FWIW, I would like to use bookmarks for EWW, and I'd like those
> bookmarks to *always* use EWW, and my `browse-url-browser-function` is
> definitely not EWW but Firefox.
>
> Emacs bookmarks don't just refer to a particular "page" but also
> remember the place within that page (by remembering surrounding text)
> and I think this part can only work if we go back with EWW.
>
> Since the page was originally viewed in EWW the corresponding bookmark
> *by default* should use EWW as well.  We can add a configuration option
> to make it obey `browse-url-browser-function` if you want, but it should
> not be the default behavior: a bookmark is supposed to bring you back to
> where it was created, so if it was created in EWW it shouldn't send you
> to Firefox.

+1

I was one of the people who asked for this feature at all.  My main
browser is Firefox, but in this particular case, I prefer eww because of
the incremental search/swiper (the page is a poorly formatted
documentation for certain library).

Opening the bookmark in firefox would completely defeat the purpose of
having it at all.

It's not the question whether I like eww or not (in fact, I don't).  The
thing is that I want to view some pages in firefox and others in eww.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl