Web browser--eww in Emacs

1Brief introduction

EWW, the full name of the Emacs Web Wowser, is a Web browser that Emacs24.4 comes with. To use EWW, you need to have LIBXML2 support.

Under Ubuntu, you can use the ' sudo apt-get install libxml2 ' to install

Under Windows, you can go to Http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ezwinports/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin.zip to download LIBXML2

2Basic operations

• Start Eww

  M-x Eww

• Operation of the Eww-mode

  Key	function	function
  Q	Eww-quit	Exit Eww
  G	Eww-reload	Reload this page
  W	Eww-copy-page-url	Copy the current URL to the kill ring
  D	Eww-download	Download the URL of the cursor, the downloaded directory exists in the variable ' eww-download-directory ', the default is ~/downloads
  L	Eww-back-url	Fallback previous URL
  R	Eww-forward-url	Forward to next URL
  H	Eww-list-histories	Show browsing History
  B	Eww-add-bookmark	Add Bookmark
  B	Eww-list-bookmarks	Show Bookmark List
  &	Eww-browse-with-external-browser	Using an external browser to open the currently browsed URL, the external browser is determined by the variable ' shr-external-browser '
  V	Eww-view-source	View Page Source code
  C	Eww-cookie-list	Listing cookies

3Configuration

• Eww-search-prefix

  If the string entered to Eww is not like a URL or hostname, then Eww-search-prefix will be used as a search engine.

• Eww-download-directory

  Configuring the download directory for EWW

• Shr-external-browser

  This variable specifies the external browser used by the EWW

• Eww-use-external-browser-for-content-type

  When you open content of the specified type, it is automatically opened with an external browser.

• Eww-header-line-format

  This variable indicates what format the head line of EWW buffer is displayed in.

  It is a format string in which%t represents the title of website, and%u represents the URL of the access

• Shr-max-image-proportion

  The value is a floating-point number not exceeding 1, indicating that the picture cannot be larger than the shr-max-imag-proportion of the entire EWW window when the picture is displayed

• Shr-blocked-images

  The variable is a regular expression, and if the URL of the picture matches the expression, the picture is masked.

Web browser--eww in Emacs