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

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Message #8 received at 23738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 23738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23738: [feature request] eww allow multiple buffer
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:03:49 -0400

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:27:05 +0200 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> wrote: 

AR> I'm using eww to navigate running a test2speech app sentence-by-sentence. Thanks
AR> a lot enabling that!

AR> Now would like to open a bunch of stuff that way, not just a single page. The
AR> buffer name should indicate the source somehow. "Instead of hard-coded "*eww*",
AR> add some initials from URL for example.

AR> So when opening http://www.gnu.org/

AR> buffer-name might appear as "*eww-go*"

You can currently use `rename-buffer' to do this manually and AFAICT
things work fine. I'm not sure there's value in making it automatic
because it would generate a lot of buffers and code complexity. Maybe it
should be a tab system inside the EWW buffer instead, to keep things
contained.

Ted

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