[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#20032: eww: access bookmarks right from the URI prompt
From: |
Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
bug#20032: eww: access bookmarks right from the URI prompt |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:48:35 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:
>>> It would be OK to have that as the first entry in the `M-n'
>>> history, but not as the default. If I read the code correctly.
>> I guess that could be fixed by using a modified version of
>> read-string and flagging the values returned by
>> eww-suggest-bookmarks in such a way as to never be considered as the
>> default by that function. I doubt that that’s worth the effort,
>> however. (Unless such a function already exists.)
> `read-string' with nil initial-input and default-value will have no
> defaults.
So? I don’t see how this is supposed to help in this case.
>> What bothers me more is that the sheer corpus of contemporary
>> software will generally filter the list of bookmarks per the search
>> terms typed in by the user first, and only then present the result
>> for their respective equivalents of M-n. Which gets handy if your
>> bookmarks (or history, or pretty much anything of that kind) number
>> in the hundreds (or more.) I know of no similar facility in the
>> current Emacs, however.
> Yeah, just sticking the bookmarks in the history isn't very useful.
Having used this feature ever since I’ve got it implemented,
I tend to disagree.
> Message uses ecomplete to do "electric" completion.
AIUI, it currently allows for only a single completion table,
and I doubt that it will make much sense to have that table
shared among Message and EWW (and perhaps other possible users.)
--
FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/ … 3013 B6A0 230E 334A