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24.4: eww.el delete entry from history list

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From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 19663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19663: 24.4: eww.el delete entry from history list
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:24:41 -0500

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On 01/25/2015 08:57 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com> writes:
> 
>> On 01/24/2015 09:48 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I found it desirable to be able to delete entries from the history list.
>>>
>>> This might be nice for debugging purposes, but I don't really see the
>>> need as a user command.  Closing.
>>>
>> Please reconsider. The use case (my use case) is someone downlaoding
>> many pages for offline reading. Once offline, I browse the history list
>> for whatever I want to read first. Once a page is read, I delete it from
>> the history list. very useful for me.
> 
> Well, in that case you can just `C-x C-q' to make the buffer
> non-read-only, and then kill off the lines you've read with `C-k', I
> think?
> 
That won't work in that the next time one presses H from the eww buffer
(eww-list-histories), any entries deleted with c-k will re-appear.

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