bug#50500: Add ways to copy id bookmark link in eww

[Yuchen Pei]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:
>
> > I'd like to add a functionality to copy the bookmark link to 
> > the kill
> > ring when the point is on a element with an id attribute.
> >
> > For example, say I am reading
> > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>, and Section 13 
> > looks
> > interesting which I want to save for reference.  By calling the 
> > said
> > function while the point is at Section 13, the link
> > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section13> is added 
> > to the
> > kill ring.
>
> Well, people put ids on all kinds of elements, but they're not 
> generally
> meant to be used for navigation.  (I mean, sometimes they are, 
> but
> statistically speaking, they're not.)
>
> So I'm not sure that `w' in general should be doing this in eww.
> Anybody else got an opinion?

Makes sense.  How about adding it as a customization variable, so 
that one can customize whether `w` also includes the id bookmark 
part and by default it does not.  It is often useful to save more 
precise positions in web page documents.

--
Best,
Yuchen

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