Re: eww and bookmarks

[Matthias Meulien]

Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> writes:

> Matthias Meulien <address@hidden> writes: 
>
> > Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> writes: 
> >
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2020-04/msg00265.html 
> > > says "installed!" but I'm not seeing it (though maybe my 
> > > git-fu is failing) 
> >
> > On my side too, I could not find anything related on master. 
>
> BTW, have you had a look at the discussion there?  Any opinion?

Yes, I read that thread. My use case is the same as the one of the 
OP of the thread you referenced: Being able to bookmark a web page 
and visit that page again in a different Emacs session, using the 
usual commands defined in bookmark.el (if using eww bookmarks, I 
would have to learn new kebindings and list bookmarks in different 
buffer than *Bookmark List*).

By the way, I can't imagine installing a third-party library for 
such a simple feature.

> How should the bookmarks behave?  Should they be exact 
> counterparts of eww bookmarks?  

I went through what eww info manual says on bookmarks and used 
those bookmarks once to understand what is the provided feature; I 
can't find anything not available from standard bookmarks. Can you 
give details on what would be lost if eww used bookmarks.el?

> Should they be linked to eww, or should it be possible to open 
> them also with another browser (e.g. w3m).

May be use `browse-url-default-browser`, but it's a different 
discussion IMOH; The current need is to make the user life simpler 
with a single place to search their bookmarks and don't ask them 
to learn a second set of key bindings, manage a new file 
containing bookmarks and configure news hooks in case they want to 
customize their bookmark list appearance...

Note that in the same direction there's a proposal to base 
bookmark list on `tabulated-list-mode` 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg01319.html. 

> Finally, what should I specify as `defaults' list for the name 
> suggestions available when you are prompted for a name for a new 
> bookmark?  Just the url? 

An HTML document may have a "title" element; Isn't it possible to 
use the value of that element when available? And the URL 
otherwise.

I apologize I've not found time to check your patch right now; 
I'll try it in the forthcoming days.
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Matthias Meulien