Re: Rename `eww' to `web'

[Jambunathan K]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I don't care too much about the dispatcher, though, so it's OK with me
>> if Emacs is the default dispatcher (the current status) and we make it
>> easy to make `eww' the default instead.
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> Maybe it's fine to let eww handle the mime-type -> major-mode mapping.
> But it's still unclear how to cleanly cause url-handler-mode to affect
> C-x C-f such that eww is called.

I believe, the actual gluing could be achieved with minimal investments.

The magic seems to happen so.

   (get operation 'url-file-handlers)
   (put 'insert-file-contents 'url-file-handlers 'url-insert-file-contents)


So `url-file-handlers' (actually `url-insert') need to check for
`(mm-handle-media-type handle)' and call one of the handlers (See
`eww-render').

          (cond
           ((equal (car content-type) "text/html")
            (eww-display-html charset url))
           ((string-match "^image/" (car content-type))
            (eww-display-image))
           (t
            (eww-display-raw charset)))


Are there any intervening operation between `insert-file-contents' and
`find-file-hook'.

   (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'url-handlers-set-buffer-mode)

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Is `find-file-hook' the right place for a `renderer'? For "multipart"
buffers are there renderers on a per-part/region basis.  

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Btw, url-handler-mode seems to be doing synchronous fetch while eww
seems to do an aynch fetch.  Should C-x C-f be "blocking" or can it be
an "asynchronous" C-x C-f?

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As for write operation, "Wiki URLs" are "writable" and can also be
"renamed".

   ;; These are operations that we do not support yet (DAV!!!)
   (put 'file-writable-p 'url-file-handlers 'ignore)

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>         Stefan