From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:52 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87fvwfa3ev.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371582112 4578 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 19:01:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:01:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 21:01:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1A7-0008EG-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1A7-0004G0-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up19T-0003F1-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up19O-0007e2-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up19N-0007dr-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up19J-0006ak-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net ([79.161.196.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0nX0veZKjOjJ2Iuyj2LoKjuS9M0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160593 Archived-At: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:48:47 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Currently eww uses a single buffer, and whenever you ask it to display a LMI> new URL, it discards everything in the buffer. This means that when you LMI> want to return to the previous page, eww has to re-fetch and re-render LMI> the page. And you lose the data in
s you have filled out. LMI> Would it make more sense for eww to use new buffers every time? eww LMI> would have a backlog of, say, ten buffers, and going back to the LMI> previous page would just mean popping to the previous buffer. And it LMI> could use `bury-buffer' and rename the previous buffer to a name with LMI> something leading with " " when you go to a new page. At least I would prefer undo/redo to go back and forth in the history of the current eww buffer, and an explicit "browse in new eww buffer" command. Speaking of conveniences, could `next-error' and `previous-error' move between anchors? Thanks! Ted