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eww switch buffer by title

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 51176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Yuchen Pei <hi <at> ypei.me>
Subject: bug#51176: eww switch buffer by title
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:47:40 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> I think in that case, perhaps it would make more sense to just rename
>> the eww buffer to have the title in the buffer name?  Then the normal
>> buffer switching commands would work automatically.
>
> In Info, forking commands (such as 'Info-follow-nearest-node FORK')
> create a new buffer with the Info node name in its buffer name, e.g.
> *info-TITLE*.  So instead of current *eww*<2>, eww could use the same
> format *eww-TITLE*, or uniquify-like angle brackets *eww<TITLE>*.

Yup, that's what I meant.  The wrinkle here is that we don't know the
title until we've fetched the HTML, so the buffer has to be renamed
after rendering.

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