GNU bug report logs - #69232
30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: James Thomas <jimjoe <at> gmx.net>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 69232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69232: 30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:20:55 +0200

> Cc: 69232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:45:49 +0530
> From:  James Thomas via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> One possible problem with this patch, I realize now, is that if you
> navigate backward ('l') and then visit another link there, the new page
> is added to the very end of history rather than the immediate next
> position. This would be confusing if you, then, navigate back and find
> that it's not the page from which you followed the link. Perhaps the
> original code was a hack around this?

The only reasonable alternative is to throw away all the history after
'l', which I don't think is better.

What do other browsers do in this situation?

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