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diff --git a/doc/misc/eww.texi b/doc/misc/eww.texi index 564c320aafd..eec6b3c3299 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eww.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eww.texi @@ -92,9 +92,10 @@ searched via @code{eww-search-prefix}. The default search engine is either prefix the file name with @code{file://} or use the command @kbd{M-x eww-open-file}. - If you invoke @code{eww} with a prefix argument, as in @w{@kbd{C-u -M-x eww}}, it will create a new EWW buffer instead of reusing the -default one, which is normally called @file{*eww*}. + If you invoke @code{eww} or @code{eww-open-file} with a prefix +argument, as in @w{@kbd{C-u M-x eww}}, they will create a new EWW +buffer instead of reusing the default one, which is normally called +@file{*eww*}. @findex eww-quit @findex eww-reload @@ -114,14 +115,30 @@ web page hit @kbd{g} (@code{eww-reload}). @kbd{w} calls @code{eww-copy-page-url}, which will copy the current page's URL to the kill ring instead. +@findex eww-copy-alternate-url +@kindex A + The @kbd{A} command (@code{eww-copy-alternate-url}) copies the URL +of an alternate link on the current page into the kill ring. If the +page specifies multiple alternate links, this command prompts for one +of them in the minibuffer, with completion. Alternate links are +references that an @acronym{HTML} page may include to point to other +documents that act as its alternative representations. Notably, +@acronym{HTML} pages can use alternate links to point to their +translated versions and to @acronym{RSS} feeds. Alternate links +appear in the @samp{<head>} section of @acronym{HTML} pages as +@samp{<link>} elements with @samp{rel} attribute equal to +@samp{``alternate''}; they are part of the page's metadata and are not +visible in its rendered content. + @findex eww-open-in-new-buffer @kindex M-RET - The @kbd{M-@key{RET}} command (@code{eww-open-in-new-buffer}) opens the -URL at point in a new EWW buffer, akin to opening a link in a new -``tab'' in other browsers. When @code{global-tab-line-mode} is -enabled, this buffer is displayed in the tab on the window tab line. -When @code{tab-bar-mode} is enabled, a new tab is created on the frame -tab bar. + The @kbd{M-@key{RET}} command (@code{eww-open-in-new-buffer}) opens +the URL at point in a new EWW buffer, akin to opening a link in a new +``tab'' in other browsers. If invoked with prefix argument, the +command will not make the new buffer the current one. When +@code{global-tab-line-mode} is enabled, this buffer is displayed in +the tab on the window tab line. When @code{tab-bar-mode} is enabled, +a new tab is created on the frame tab bar. @findex eww-readable @kindex R @@ -129,6 +146,27 @@ tab bar. which part of the document contains the ``readable'' text, and will only display this part. This usually gets rid of menus and the like. + When called interactively, this command toggles the display of the +readable parts. With a positive prefix argument, this command always +displays the readable parts, and with a zero or negative prefix, it +always displays the full page. + +@vindex eww-readable-urls + If you want EWW to render a certain page in ``readable'' mode by +default, you can add a regular expression matching its URL to +@code{eww-readable-urls}. Each entry can either be a regular expression +in string form or a cons cell of the form +@w{@code{(@var{regexp} . @var{readability})}}. If @var{readability} is +non-@code{nil}, this behaves the same as the string form; otherwise, +URLs matching @var{regexp} will never be displayed in readable mode by +default. For example, you can use this to make all pages default to +readable mode, except for a few outliers: + +@example +(setq eww-readable-urls '(("https://example\\.com/" . nil) + ".*")) +@end example + @findex eww-toggle-fonts @vindex shr-use-fonts @kindex F @@ -175,6 +213,15 @@ history press @kbd{H} (@code{eww-list-histories}) to open the history buffer @file{*eww history*}. The history is lost when EWW is quit. If you want to remember websites you can use bookmarks. +@vindex eww-before-browse-history-function + By default, when browsing to a new page from a ``historical'' one +(i.e.@: a page loaded by navigating back via @code{eww-back-url}), EWW +will first delete any history entries newer than the current page. This +is the same behavior as most other web browsers. You can change this by +customizing @code{eww-before-browse-history-function} to another value. +For example, setting it to @code{ignore} will preserve the existing +history entries and simply prepend the new page to the history list. + @vindex eww-history-limit Along with the URLs visited, EWW also remembers both the rendered page (as it appears in the buffer) and its source. This can take a |