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24.4: history bloat and navigation trouble

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Message #23 received at 19662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 19662-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>,
 19662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19662: 24.4: history bloat and navigation trouble
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:20:09 +0100

On 2015-01-25, at 13:47, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com> writes:
>
>> Whenever I use the 'r' or 'l' keys in eww-mode, to eww-forward-url or
>> eww-back-url in the history list, the size of the history increases.
>> This seems to me to be wrong. Also, this behaviour seems to make it
>> impossible (for me, at least) to traverse the entire history this way,
>> unless I do so in a straight sequence (eg. all eww-back-url without ever
>> using eww-forward-url).
>
> The eww history navigation is, er, original, but it's trying to solve
> the problem of "how do I get back to the page I saw just a few minutes
> ago".
>
> If you're on page A, then moves to B, then moves back to A, and then
> moves to C, then getting back to B in eww is <back>, <back>.  Because
> that's the page you saw two pages ago.
>
> In Firefox, if you do the same, <back> will get you to A, and then
> there's no more <back>, and you can never visit B by either going back
> or forward.
>
> And it seems to me like your proposed change would have the same effect.
>
> If anybody has a better way of registering the history (that still
> wouldn't "forget" B, like Firefox does), I'm all ears.

Hi, it seems this thread just died silently.  I'm closing this bug.
Please reopen it if anything new (like, an idea) pops up.

Best,

-- 
Marcin the Janitor

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