bug#20028: 24.4; eww: default to the URI at point

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Alexis  <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:

 > If point is on a URL such as:

 >    http://www.gnu.org/

 > and the user then does M-x eww RET, it would be nice if that URL
 > could be used as the default value for the "Enter URL ..." prompt,
 > e.g.

 >    Enter URL or keywords (default: http://www.gnu.org/):

 > (Or, if a customizable variable was available to enable such
 > behaviour.)

        This seem to be a duplicate of #19106 [1], which is already
        fixed for Emacs 25.  Could you please check if M-x eww indeed
        behaves as requested with a recent Emacs ‘master’?  Or, I
        presume you could try adapting the patch there to Emacs 24.

        TIA.

[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/19106

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