[O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-08 Thread Marcin Borkowski
https://vivaldi.com/ Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like or emacs-like bindings, or (hopefully) configurable ones. I, for one, would like to try it out, thoug

[O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Jeremie Juste
For my part I use IceCat. They have made a lot of progress recently if you are hesitating. As for key bindings the closest options to emacs I have found is firemacs: http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/firemacs/en/ Best regards, Jeremie

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-14 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 13:56, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: >> >>> On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 10:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote: On 2016-04-11, at 06:37, Adam Porter wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >>

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-14 Thread Haider Rizvi
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Apart from that, though, this setup is fairly Conkeror like. Just > faster, and with fewer mysterious silent crashes! Faster!! I guess I have to try it out. Regards, -- Haider

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-15 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Wed, 13-04-2016, at 21:44, Haider Rizvi wrote: > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > >> For me Conkeror works just great most of the time. But the main problem >> (for me) is that some of the extensions of Firefox will not work with >> Conkeror. > > Yes, well aware of the extensions issue. Since I

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-15 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Thu, 14-04-2016, at 09:07, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> (...) >> Eric, do you mean the dlbsnail and S3.dlbsnail? Or do you mean the >> "LinkDownloads"? The last one I've not been able to get to work (seems to >> do nothing). > > I only installed the dlbsnail, and I think it works okay. Underst

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-15 Thread Adam Porter
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > Faster? How did you do that? For me it is slower, noticeably (I estimate no > less than 3 to 4 times; from less than one second to about two or more > seconds in many simple tasks such as opening a link from a email under > emacs; yes, I am reusing a running firefox w

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-15 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > On Thu, 14-04-2016, at 09:07, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> (...) >>> Eric, do you mean the dlbsnail and S3.dlbsnail? Or do you mean the >>> "LinkDownloads"? The last one I've not been able to get to work (seems to >>> do nothing). >> >> I only installed the dlbsnail, a

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-17 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Sat, 16-04-2016, at 03:44, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > >> On Thu, 14-04-2016, at 09:07, Eric Abrahamsen >> wrote: (...) Eric, do you mean the dlbsnail and S3.dlbsnail? Or do you mean the "LinkDownloads"? The last one I've not been able to get to wo

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-17 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Fri, 15-04-2016, at 23:49, Adam Porter wrote: > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > >> Faster? How did you do that? For me it is slower, noticeably (I estimate no >> less than 3 to 4 times; from less than one second to about two or more >> seconds in many simple tasks such as opening a link from a

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-08 Thread Adam Porter
Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: > https://vivaldi.com/ > > Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes > while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? > Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like or emacs-like bindings, or > (hopefully) configurable o

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-08 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Adam Porter writes: > Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: > >> https://vivaldi.com/ >> >> Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes >> while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? >> Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like or emacs-like bindings, o

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 8 Apr 2016 at 22:00, Adam Porter wrote: [...] > It looks interesting, but it's not free software, so I have no interest Funnily enough, that's the first thing I checked. I think I'll stick with Firefox + vimperator for full keyboard controlled browsing. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Rasmus
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Adam Porter writes: > >> Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: >> >>> https://vivaldi.com/ >>> >>> Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes >>> while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? >>> Keyboard-driven might mean eithe

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-04-08, at 22:00, Adam Porter wrote: > Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: > >> https://vivaldi.com/ >> >> Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes >> while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? >> Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-04-09, at 02:26, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Adam Porter writes: > >> Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: >> >>> https://vivaldi.com/ >>> >>> Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes >>> while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? >>> Keyboar

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-04-08, at 21:39, Oleh Krehel wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> https://vivaldi.com/ > >> Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? > > It's a closed-source Chromium-based browser. Just ignore that nonsense. Well, while "nonsense" might be too much of a word, this does

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Adam Porter
Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: > I'm not an Opera user, so please enlighten me: what was wrong with it? > (The only info about Opera I have is from one of my friends, who liked > it a lot a few years ago.) I've never really been an Opera user either, other than trying it briefly. >From wha

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 9 Apr 2016 at 18:09, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > On 2016-04-09, at 02:26, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: [...] >> actively maintained, which I don't love. If anyone has recommendations >> for better keyboard-driven browsers, I'd love to hear them... > > eww ;-) I use this as my first port o

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Rasmus writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Adam Porter writes: >> >>> Marcin Borkowski mbork.pl> writes: >>> https://vivaldi.com/ Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? Key

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Saturday, 9 Apr 2016 at 18:09, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> On 2016-04-09, at 02:26, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > [...] > >>> actively maintained, which I don't love. If anyone has recommendations >>> for better keyboard-driven browsers, I'd love to hear them... >> >> eww

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-09 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> On Saturday, 9 Apr 2016 at 18:09, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> On 2016-04-09, at 02:26, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> >> [...] >> actively maintained, which I don't love. If anyone has recommendations for better keyboard-driven browsers,

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 10 Apr 2016 at 02:42, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Ahem... What I meant to say is that I haven't spent the time to figure > out a quick, intuitive way to say "open *this* link in eww... now open > *this* link in my external browser", etc. That was all. My typical use is that eww is the defa

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Sauli Heinola
* Eric S Fraga : > My typical use is that eww is the default for any link I run into in > emacs. If the page visited is not appropriate, I simply hit w > (eww-copy-page-url), switch to Firefox and open the page ("o C-v RET" in > vimperator...). I mostly use eww's `eww-browse-with-external-browser

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 10 Apr 2016 at 11:53, Sauli Heinola wrote: > I mostly use eww's `eww-browse-with-external-browser'-command, bound to > the &-key by default. The external browser is specified by the > `shr-external-browser'-variable. Ah, very helpful. Thanks. Works well. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF6

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Sunday, 10 Apr 2016 at 02:42, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Ahem... What I meant to say is that I haven't spent the time to figure >> out a quick, intuitive way to say "open *this* link in eww... now open >> *this* link in my external browser", etc. That was all. > > My typi

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 10 Apr 2016 at 13:17, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main Thanks for the pointer! Excellent addition to eww. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.92.1, Org release_8.3.4-705-g716e33

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Richard Lawrence
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main > functionality I liked from Conkeror: hit a key, and pick a link to do > something with. Rather strangely, the KeySnail plugin for Firefox seems > to do everything *but* this, which I thought was wei

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Marcin Borkowski writes: > https://vivaldi.com/ > > Did anyone hear about it? Any thoughts/experiences? "Taking notes > while browsing" seems to be something close to org-capture, no? > Keyboard-driven might mean either vim-like or emacs-like bindings, or > (hopefully) configurable ones. I, for

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Eric, On Sun, 10-04-2016, at 15:17, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Eric S Fraga writes: > > > I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main > functionality I liked from Conkeror: hit a key, and pick a link to do > something with. Rather strangely, the KeySnail plugin for

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Richard Lawrence writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main >> functionality I liked from Conkeror: hit a key, and pick a link to do >> something with. Rather strangely, the KeySnail plugin for Firefox seems >> to do everything *

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > Dear Eric, > > On Sun, 10-04-2016, at 15:17, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Eric S Fraga writes: >> >> >> I installed the eww-lnum package right away, as that provides the main >> functionality I liked from Conkeror: hit a key, and pick a link to do >> something with. Ra

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-10 Thread Adam Porter
Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > I had no idea Firefox did this... ...You're not the only one...

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-11 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-04-11, at 06:37, Adam Porter wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> I had no idea Firefox did this... > > ...You're not the only one... Me too, thanks for that tip!!! Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-11 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 10:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > On 2016-04-11, at 06:37, Adam Porter wrote: > >> Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: >> >>> I had no idea Firefox did this... >> >> ...You're not the only one... > > Me too, thanks for that tip!!! Add another one. :-) That sa

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 10:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> On 2016-04-11, at 06:37, Adam Porter wrote: >> >>> Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: >>> I had no idea Firefox did this... >>> >>> ...You're not the only one... >> >> Me too, thanks for that

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-11 Thread Peter Davis
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, at 02:09 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > eww ;-) > I never played with eww before. It looks interesting, but seriously, is there any way to cancel a large download? My emacs is completely locked up now downloading an image from a site. I assume it's all customized with li

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
Michael Welle writes: > Hallo, > > Peter Davis writes: > >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, at 02:09 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> >>> eww ;-) >>> >> >> I never played with eww before. It looks interesting, but seriously, is >> there any way to cancel a large download? My emacs is completely locked >>

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-12 Thread Phillip Lord
Michael Welle writes: > Hallo, > > Peter Davis writes: > >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, at 02:09 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> >>> eww ;-) >>> >> >> I never played with eww before. It looks interesting, but seriously, is >> there any way to cancel a large download? My emacs is completely locked >>

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-12 Thread Phillip Lord
Michael Welle writes: >> Did you submit a bug report? > no, I didn't. I think it's by design and more a feature request than a > bug. And to be honest, eww is not so important to me. w3m works quite > nice. The bug tracker is for feature requests also! Phil

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-12 Thread Haider Rizvi
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I've been using Conkeror (based on Xulrunner/Firefox) for a while > now, and like it enough to stick with it. It's completely keyboard > driven, which I love. It's also not super stable, nor does it seem > to be actively maintained, which I don't love. If anyone has > re

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Haider Rizvi writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I've been using Conkeror (based on Xulrunner/Firefox) for a while >> now, and like it enough to stick with it. It's completely keyboard >> driven, which I love. It's also not super stable, nor does it seem >> to be actively maintained, which I

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-13 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 13:56, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > >> On Mon, 11-04-2016, at 10:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> On 2016-04-11, at 06:37, Adam Porter wrote: >>> Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > I had no idea Firefox did this... >>

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-13 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Haider, On Tue, 12-04-2016, at 19:53, Haider Rizvi wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I've been using Conkeror (based on Xulrunner/Firefox) for a while >> now, and like it enough to stick with it. It's completely keyboard >> driven, which I love. It's also not super stable, nor does it

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-13 Thread Hauke Rehfeld
Opera (when they were still using their own engine) had a lot of quite useful UI features, and could open hundreds of tabs without much slowdown. In the chrome port, they were back to basic chrome features, and even right now (after how many years?) it's not very different from using a diffe

Re: [O] [OT] A new web browser‽

2016-04-13 Thread Haider Rizvi
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > For me Conkeror works just great most of the time. But the main problem > (for me) is that some of the extensions of Firefox will not work with > Conkeror. Yes, well aware of the extensions issue. Since I had no solution, I started looking at it as a blessing in disg