Hi! > Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> writes: > >> Given that the coming release of emacs 25 ships with the eww browser, I >> think it would be worthwhile to make org-eww.el a core org-mode module. >> I have been using eww instead of emacs-w3m for some time now with no >> problems. Since org ships with support for emacs-w3m, an external >> package, it seems to makes sense also to support eww, the built-in >> browser. > > In this case, we need to add a mechanism to throw an error when this > module is loaded without Eww being available. As a reminder, Org 9 still > supports Emacs 24.3. > >> I noticed that Marco Wahl, the author of org-eww.el, is on the >> contributors list, so, if I understand correctly, there shouldn't be >> copyright issues. > > There could be if we integrated patches from people without FSF > assignment. I didn't check, but I don't think it happened though.
In 2014 I signed the assignment for Emacs (946878). (Just curious: is there a public list containing all the assignments? Found nothing after duckduckgoing for 5 minutes.) > If Marco Wahl (Cc'ed) agrees and the change above is made, we could > indeed add the module to core. Agreed. Of course feel free to apply the changes you have in mind and possibly go beyond. Best regards, -- Marco GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
