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EWW ‘readable’ by default

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Navajeeth <yvv0 <at> proton.me>
Cc: 68254 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68254: EWW ‘readable’ by default
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:24:26 -0700

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On 1/5/2024 5:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [Please use Reply All to reply, so that the bug tracker is CC'ed.]
> 
>> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:08:29 +0000
>> From: Navajeeth <yvv0 <at> proton.me>
>>
>> I’ve tried that method. While at first it appears to work how I want, it’s sub-optimal because it clutters
>> your history with two version of every webpage you open: one the full non-readable version and then
>> the readable version generated by the after-render-hook. Going back in the history is a chore,
>> you need to press ‘l’ twice to go back one webpage.
>>
>> I used to tolerate it for a while, but now I feel that there could be a better way.

Here's a patch for this. It turns 'eww-readable' into a toggle (using 
the same semantics as minor modes), and also adds an option to prevent 
adding a new history entry for each call.

After this patch, you could set 'eww-readable-adds-to-history' to nil 
and add 'eww-readable' to 'eww-after-render-hook', and then everything 
should work ok. With those settings, you could then call 'eww-readable' 
to display the full page if needed.

(There might be some value in adding another new option that lets you 
specify a list of regexps to match pages that should start in readable 
mode; then it would be easy for users to enable that for 
"https://example\.com/.*" or similar. We can do that later if there's 
any demand for it, though.)

[0001-Allow-toggling-readable-mode-in-EWW.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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