GNU bug report logs - #23738
[feature request] eww allow multiple buffer

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Message #18 received at 23738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>,
 23738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23738: [feature request] eww allow multiple buffer
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:38:47 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> I'm using eww to navigate running a test2speech app
>> sentence-by-sentence. Thanks a lot enabling that!
>>
>> Now would like to open a bunch of stuff that way, not just a single
>> page. The buffer name should indicate the source somehow. "Instead of
>> hard-coded "*eww*", add some initials from URL for example.
>>
>> So when opening http://www.gnu.org/
>>
>> buffer-name might appear as "*eww-go*"
>
> I've now altered `eww-browse-url' when used with a `new-window'
> parameter so that it'll create new buffer names based on the host.
> It'll look like *eww-www.gnu.org*, though.

What happens when I navigate to another site in the same buffer?  Then
the buffer name is deceptive.  Both s and S show the site and/or title,
and the header line of the eww buffer always has both, so this change seems
strange IMHO.

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