bug#69232: 30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop

[Jim Porter]

On 2/24/2024 9:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
> > Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com,  69232@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 04:04:13 +0530
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Exactly that. Firefox, Chrome etc. for e.g.
>
> So maybe we should offer that as optional behavior?

If anything, I think this should be the default, with some other options 
provided for people who don't want to lose any history. That way the 
default behavior is what people know.

How about this as an option for preserving history though: if you're at 
a historical page and you navigate to a link, open that link in a *new* 
buffer, copying over the history leading up to that link. That way, you 
have two separate history timelines and nothing ever gets lost or munged.