Re: Conkeror-like functionality for EWW

[Andrey Kotlarski <m00naticus@gmail.com>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.devel as well.

[  5 ноември 2014, 12:17 +0100, сряда ] Tassilo Horn:

> Well, a user might know what he's looking for.  Or do you mean that
> statement in a more technical sense?

If there are matches further down, they have to be shown somehow so user
doesn't blindly RET on the first without knowing what it is.  This
interface makes sense only on visible part of page.

> In the latter case, `helm-occur' does something similar namely
> dynamically narrowing down a buffer to lines that match a given regex as
> you type it.  It does that in a separate buffer and prefixes the the
> matching lines with some metadata (file, line), but I think that should
> be doable also on the current buffer.

helm-occur is very nice (probably even separate help-eww-links source)
but it shows just one line context and somewhat restricted way to jump
directly to particular match if many.  It is good in many cases but
sufficiently different than the conkeror-style interface to somehow
combine them.

By the way helm integration is something I'd like to do for the
eww-lnum-universal command where link/form/button is first selected and
then number of actions offered.