{"id":11906,"date":"2024-01-14T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2024-01-14T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T16:58:12","slug":"browsing-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11906","title":{"rendered":"Browsing In Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNorman Walsh has an interesting post in which he discusses discovering browsing in Emacs<\/a>. More specifically, he discovered how to follow a link in an Email and have the result displayed in Emacs. He’s using WebKit with Xwidgets so that means more than just using EWW.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn his setup, which judging from the screenshot is on a Mac, typing return on a link in an email renders the link in HTML in the Emacs buffer. He doesn’t say what email client he’s using but with mu4e, which I use, that doesn’t happen. Rather, the link opens in the browser. At first I thought that I must have some sort of configuration item causing the difference but I couldn’t find anything. In any event, it doesn’t matter for mu4e because if it detects you have Xwidgets installed it will automatically include a binding (ax<\/code>) to render the email in HTML. From there, you can follow any other links by clicking on them.\n<\/p>\n

\nThat’s pretty nice, but it gets better. I also have elfeed-webkit<\/a> installed so that I can read my elfeed RSS entries in HTML as well. What actually happens is that elfeed-webkit follows the source link in the RSS and renders it in HTML. You can configure it to automatically include or exclude specific sites if you need to.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe takeaway from all this is that it’s possible to render emails, elfeed entries, and various other links in HTML directly in an Emacs buffer. Walsh discovered one aspect of a much larger field of possibilities. Emacs has gotten pretty good at handling HTML within Emacs<\/i>. There are still a few dark corners but things are getting better and better. I’m looking forward to the day I can finally ditch my browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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