bug#19105: eww-save-history: use a customizable limit (eww-history-limit)

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package:  emacs
Severity: wishlist

        The limit on the number of eww-history entries enforced by
        eww-save-history is currently hard-coded.  Instead, it should be
        customizable, with an option not to enforce any limit at all.

        Please thus consider the patch MIMEd.

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FSF associate member #7257  http://boycottsystemd.org/  … 3013 B6A0 230E 334A

--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@
   :group 'eww
   :type 'string)
 
+(defcustom eww-history-limit 50
+  "Maximum number of entries to retain in the history."
+  :version "25.1"
+  :group 'eww
+  :type '(choice (const :tag "Unlimited" nil)
+                 integer))
 (defcustom eww-use-external-browser-for-content-type
   "\\`\\(video/\\|audio/\\|application/ogg\\)"
   "Always use external browser for specified content-type."
@@ -1452,7 +1511,8 @@ Differences in #targets are ignored."
   (setq eww-data (list :title ""))
   ;; Don't let the history grow infinitely.  We store quite a lot of
   ;; data per page.
-  (when-let (tail (nthcdr 50 eww-history))
+  (when-let (tail (and eww-history-limit
+                      (nthcdr eww-history-limit eww-history)))
     (setcdr tail nil)))
 
 (defun eww-list-histories ()