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bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path.
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path. |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:01:43 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Actually, the same 99.7% of all web pages doesn't provide special
>> attributes "next"/"previous"/"up" used by 'n'/'p'/'u' eww commands.
>
> That's also true, so I was sceptical about adding that (because it also
> makes `C-s' etc behave sub-optimally in 99.7% of web pages), so I've
> been pondering whether to remove it (or at least hide it behind and
> option defaulting to "off").
But users like it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9oi1e3/ewws_awesome_isearch_support_just_blew_my_mind/
And if it behaves sub-optimally, it could be fixed by just creating
a new bug report :-)
> But at least it has one thing going for it -- it's a standard mechanism,
> not using guesswork.
>
>> So using URL regexp matching as a fallback for other 99.7% of web pages
>> that don't have numbers in URL will support (100% - 99.7%) * 2 pages.
>
> It's true, but it'll also make `C-s' (at the end of an eww buffer) guess
> at what's the next buffer, load it, and search through that instead.
> Which is just kinda problematic, since an URL with a number in it isn't
> necessarily related to the URL with the next number in it.
>
> We'd be displaying web pages to the user that the user hasn't asked for,
> and that the person who wrote the web site didn't intend for the user to
> navigate in that way.
I agree, then such fuzzy guesswork should be optional.
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Yuchen Pei, 2021/09/09
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Juri Linkov, 2021/09/10
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/10
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Yuchen Pei, 2021/09/10
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Juri Linkov, 2021/09/10
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/11
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path.,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/13
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Juri Linkov, 2021/09/13
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Juri Linkov, 2021/09/13
- bug#50497: [PATCH] Adding eww-{next,previous,up,top}-path., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/14