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eww switch buffer by title

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From: Yuchen Pei <hi <at> ypei.me>
To: Protesilaos Stavrou <info <at> protesilaos.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 51176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51176: eww switch buffer by title
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:26:18 +1100

On 14 October 2021 07:31:22 GMT+11:00, Protesilaos Stavrou <info <at> protesilaos.com> wrote:
>On 2021-10-13, 20:14 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:
>>
>>> I see.  Then maybe in the existing hook `eww-after-render-hook'?
>>
>> Yup; I misread the code -- that looks like the correct place to put it.
>> But I can also see many people wanting this, so perhaps a user option to
>> rename the buffers this way would be nice.
>
>That is right.  I am preparing together with another person a patch that
>auto-renames eww buffers after they are rendered.  The idea is to use
>either the page title or, if that is not available, the page's URL.
>
>In terms of user options, there would be a toggle to enable the
>behaviour (off by default to not upset existing users) as well as a
>defcustom with ":type 'function", so users can specify exactly how the
>renaming scheme should work.
>
>I expect the code to be finalised within the coming days, in case you
>have not done the work already.
>

Sgtm and looking forward :)

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