{"id":13971,"date":"2026-07-26T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:43:57","slug":"copy-link-at-point-in-eww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13971","title":{"rendered":"Copy Link At Point In EWW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRaymond Zeitler over at <a href=\"https:\/\/ray-on-emacs.blogspot.com\">Ray on Emacs<\/a> has a nice post on <a href=\"https:\/\/ray-on-emacs.blogspot.com\/2026\/07\/how-to-copy-link-at-point-undocumented.html\">copying the link at point in EWW<\/a>. It&rsquo;s sort of hidden so that&rsquo;s the reason for his post and this one. He decided to write his own because he couldn&rsquo;t find anything that already did the job. It was only after he wrote it that he stumbled on the existing functionality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe short answer is that the <code>u<\/code> key does just what he wanted. The longer answer is that sometimes <code>w<\/code> also works. The documentation says that <code>w<\/code> copies the URL of the current page <i>but<\/i> if the point is on a link, it will copy the link&rsquo;s URL instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&rsquo;m finding that I&rsquo;m using EWW more and more so I&rsquo;m glad to have this information. Zeitler has more details so be sure to take a look at his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Zeitler over at Ray on Emacs has a nice post on copying the link at point in EWW. It&rsquo;s sort of hidden so that&rsquo;s the reason for his post and this one. He decided to write his own because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13972,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/13972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}