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Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? |
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Sat, 16 May 2020 00:17:57 -0400 |
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> Richard> The built-in Emacs renderer gives ok results when the links
don't matter.
> Richard> For links, the way it tries to follow them is useless since it
doesn't
> Richard> go through Tor.
> The url library used by eww/shr supports SOCKS, and Tor can be run as
> a SOCKS proxy.
The issue is even more complex. There are TWO ways I visit web pages
from Emacs, neither of which is eww. I want to be able to choose
which way to use each time.
Doing that manually is easy enough -- if I can SEE the URL in the
buffer. So I use lynx -dump to render the HTML, and it shows the URLs
of the links at the end. Then I can do what I want to do.
The built-in Emacs renderer (is that eww?) doesn't show me the URLs,
which means I have no way to follow those links in either of the ways
I want to use. Therefore, I need to hide the eww rendering and render
with lynx.
I would appreciate being able to specify "use lynx -dump to render HTML
from my incoming emails." lynx -dump instead of eww that is.
Also helpful would be a way to customize how to follow a link in eww
rendering, which would let me write Lisp code to do one or the other
of the things I want to do. Then maybe I would like eww as much as
lynx -dump.
But I would also want to be able to grab the URL into the kill buffer.
Could eww include those URLs in the rendered text?
I would guess lynx -dump is faster too, but I don't know for
certain.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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