GNU Emacs Web Browser
EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser for GNU Emacs.
It can load, parse, and display various web pages using shr.el.
However a GNU Emacs with libxml2 support is required.
Questions tagged [eww]
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eww-open-file and eww-mode render differently (emacs)
If I open a file with:
M-x eww-open-file RET anyfile.html
then it opens in a buffer and looks the same as if I had opened the file then called:
M-x shr-render-buffer
Now if I open anyfile.html then do:
M-x eww-mode
it looks a bit like HTML mode…
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emacs (org-mode/helm-google) open links in eww?
I use emacs/ orgmode and helm-google.
When I open a page it opens it in google chrome. I would like it to open in eww. (ideally even have some way to have different hotkeys to open pages in either eww/chrome)
I tried to set var: browse-url-generic…
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EWW: very slow opening of certain pages
I'm using EWW Emacs browser for opening various remote pages(mostly documentation) which is very handy most of the time.
I'm still trying to understand why certain pages take 4-5-6+ seconds to be rendered in eww(which take <1s in Chrome, for…
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Emacs and eww, open links in new window?
I configured Emacs to open new links in eww like so:
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'eww-browse-url)
Now when I click on a link, it opens in the same buffer.
I would like it to open a new window (i.e split vertically like C - x 3) and open…
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Is it possible to start eww with an url via script from shell?
Sometimes I read an article in my browser (qutebrowser) and think, oh "that article would be nice to work on in emacs". I can call scripts from the browser, and hand them the visited URL.
Is it possible to call emacs (or even better emacsclient, as…
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Emacs eww - how to switch to typing in text fields?
I'm new to eww browser(and emacs) and was wondering if it is possible to use it not just for navigating links and URLs but for submitting some basic plain HTML forms.
Is it possible?
I was trying to test in using https://google.com, it sort-of-works…
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Emacs 24 Eww(Browser) - buffer and project open and refresh
In Emacs 24 there is a new feature Eww which is the Emacs web browser.
I am using this resource ergoemacs as a reference.
Looking through describe mode I can see a list of commands but not for what I want to do.
Describe mode
CTRL+h m
I want to be…
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eww: How to tell the page is loaded
In my elisp code, I am trying to use (eww url) to open a page. How can I know that the page loaded? I need to process the eww buffer.
Emacs 24.4
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The Emacs eww doesn't load the YouTube
When I type the command eww and enter the url google.com it just loads the front page of Google nicely just the way it should be loaded.
But when i search for YouTube on this Google front page and hit search, a new buffer starts but nothing gets…
