Re: eww

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> Another question: Emacs can display PDF nicely.  When I browse to a
>> PDF with eww, I get the raw data displayed.  It would be cool if eww
>> would display PDF as PDF :)
>
> When seeing the raw PDF, just do `M-x doc-view-mode' and you'll get the
> rendered version.

True, that would work fine :)

> Another issue with eww <-> doc-view interaction is that once
> `doc-view-mode' is enabled in the *eww* buffer, you cannot go back
> anymore.  I think it would be a good idea if eww created new buffers
> for things it can't handle on its own (so everything except for HTML).

Hm, I was wondering about buffers:  It doesn't seem to be possible to
have several eww buffers at the same time.

M-x eww asks me for an URL to visit and loads that, replacing the one
that's already loaded instead of opening it in a new buffer.  I usually
have about 50--100 Tabs open in seamonkey, and I need them to be
restored when starting the browser, like seamonkey does, and I need
browsing history and sometimes bookmarks ...  If eww would work with
desktop-mode, all the websites and buffers with PDFs or other things
downloaded could be reloaded when emacs is started ...

Or does that go a little too far?  It rises security concerns ... what
if you downloaded some elisp file and it is somehow accidentally
evaluated?


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