Subject: Re: bug#16204: eww does not respect shr-width customization

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:01:02 +0100

Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	As currently implemented, eww-display-html simply resets
> 	shr-width to nil, disrespecting any user’s customization
> 	thereof, and providing no easy way to specify the HTML rendering
> 	width to use in EWW buffers.

The problem here is really that `shr-width' defaults to `fill-column',
which is fine and dandy for shr in Gnus, but isn't good in eww.  Gnus
wants a width that makes responding to the HTML nice (i.e.,
`fill-column'), while eww wants to render the HTML for reading (i.e.,
use the full window width).

I think the right solution here is to make Gnus customize `shr-width' to
`fill-column', and eww should leave the variable alone.

However, that sounds like a new feature, and we're in a feature freeze.

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