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bug#40909: eww: Add max width option similar to Man-width-max
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#40909: eww: Add max width option similar to Man-width-max |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:18:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Oh, I had missed that it exists. It's almost there, but its default
>> is not 80. Could we change that?
>
> I think the natural default is the frame width -- people have presumably
> chosen a frame width they are comfortable with using.
I think that large, wide monitors are increasingly common, and I
suspect many people simply run Emacs in full screen mode.
It's generally easier to read text if it's restricted to 50-80
characters or so.[1]
Compare to how many large web sites no longer use the full screen
width, as was common when the web was young, but restrict it to a
predetermined maximum width even on large monitors.
I mean, ideally I suppose we would pick that out from the CSS, but
that sounds very hard to do. So, at least to my mind, changing the
default of shr-width to 80 might be the next best thing.
> But it would make sense to point users to shr variables, too, when they
> are customising eww.
Yes, this would be good.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
Footnotes:
[1]
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recommended-column-width-for-text-reading-digital-vs-printed