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bug#16211: eww should support multiple *eww* buffers
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#16211: eww should support multiple *eww* buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:11:35 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:21:27 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
wrote:
IS> EWW should support rendering Web pages in more than one buffer
IS> (akin to “tabs” and “windows” of many other browsers out there.)
>> I agree, but Lars and Stefan may not. They prefer (based on a
>> discussion in emacs-devel just recently) a more Emacsian behavior where
>> possible, instead of mimicking regular web browsers.
SM> Not sure what you're thinking of. I've spent a fair deal of time
SM> hacking on info.el so that we could have several Info buffers at the
SM> same time. Same for PCL-CVS, *Help* and a few others.
SM> Emacs is an Operating System. So of course, we want to be able to have
SM> several eww buffers at the same time.
I was talking about "tabs" and "windows" specifically, which imply a
collection of eww buffers should be somehow associated. Anyhow, as I
said, I'm in favor of this as well, I just didn't want to assume this
direction was desirable.
Ted