Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite

This package enhance the integrated xwidget-webkit browser with hopefully useful functionnalities.

Follow link

Using xwwp-follow-link to choose a link on the current web page. It also highlight the candidates on the web page.

It currently supports completing-read, ido, ivy and helm completion backend. I'm willing to add support for other completion backend, open an issue with your backend of choice and I'll have a look at what can be done. Or better, fork and create a pull request, most of the needed code is already there, it just needs to be hooked.

DWIM style M-x xwwp

DWIM style command adapted from eww, smarter than the original xwidget-webkit-browse-url. Automatically prefixes and expands the url, and use xwwp-search-prefix to search for it if input doesn't look like an URL or a domain name.

If called with a prefix ARG, create a new Webkit session instead of reusing the default Webkit session.

Browse url in other window

The xwidget-webkit-browse-url just update the current xwidget-webkit buffer but does not bring it to the front (at least on MacOS), which is what you would expect. The xwwp-browse-url-orther-window method will also bring it to the front using swith-to-buffer-other-window.

How to install

Clone the repo locally and

(use-package xwwp-follow-link
  :load-path "~/.emacs.d/xwwp-follow-link"
  :custom
  (xwwp-follow-link-completion-system 'ivy)
  :bind (:map xwidget-webkit-mode-map
              ("v" . xwwp-follow-link)))

Or via Melpa M-x package-install xwwp, and setup for your completion backend via variable xwwp-follow-link-completion-system

Development

The goal of this package is to enhance the xwidget-webkit browser. If you have any code or feature suggestion that you think should make it into this package, please open an issue or better, create a pull request!

Authors

• Damien Merenne dam@cosinux.org
• Q. Hong qhong@mit.edu
• Masahiro Nakamura tsuucat@icloud.com