Browsing in Emacs
(Perhaps this is more of a “today I noticed” post, but we’ll go with “TIL” because that’s the category I have.)
Browsing sanely structured web pages in Emacs has been practical for ages. You can see this easily in elfeed, an RSS/Atom reader in Emacs. Here’s a recent post from this weblog in elfeed.
What happened today was, I got an HTML-only email message. It was kind of a garbled mess. The structure of the HTML was not, er, “sane” by any stretch. Near the top, it had an “if you can’t read the atrocious crap we’ve disrespectfully dumped in your inbox, please read it online after you deal with eleven disrespectful popups” link.
Usually what I do in this circumstanceThat is a complete lie. Usually what I do is ignore the email. But this was from a bank or something and I felt like I needed to check. is move the cursor into the link, type “U” to copy it, “⌘ Tab” over to my browser, “⌘T” to open a new tab, “⌘P”, hit Enter, and confirm by looking at the browser page that I didn’t actually care.
This time, absent-mindedly or accidentally, I hit Enter on the link. Emacs happily rendered the page with an embedded WebKit browser. The damned cookie popups even popped up. Since I’m not inclined to share my banking pages with you, here’s the weblog entry above rendered by hitting Enter on the link:
