As I’ve written many times, only my browner keeps me from doing almost everything in Emacs. Sure, there are some other apps that can’t be brought under the Emacs umbrella, but in many cases, emacs-everywhere allows me to handle text input and editing in Emacs.
Still, I spend a lot of time in Safari and it would be nice to whittle that time down. Joshua Blais claims that Emacs is his browser. His key for doing that is, of course, eww. He says, that like most of us, he believed it was far from capable of being an everyday browser but after using it for a while, he’s found that it’s usable for 85–90 percent of his use cases.
What many consider its shortcomings—it’s lack of hyper-interactivity and busy graphical display—Blais considers an advantage. He’s tired of the modern web with all its flashing lights and finds eww perfect for reading blogs and other serious writing that requires concentration and in-depth thought.
He’s made some nominal changes to the key bindings and a few other items. In particular, he’s made eww his default browser so even if he needs to go to a full-fledged browser, he has to go through eww first. His post has his configuration so you can see how he’s doing things.
Some day, I’ll get up enough nerve to try something similar. I don’t take part in social media or most of the other flashier parts of the Web and I use the excellent Magic Lasso to filter most of the junk that the modern Web insists on shoveling into our computers so my motivation is different from Bais’: I just want to stay in Emacs as much as I can.