3.1.1 Links

Links are buttons as defined in button.el.

Navigate to links with ‘TAB’ (‘wwe-next-link’) and ‘<backtab>’ (‘wwe-previous-link’). Cycling starts again when you reach the end or beginning of the buffer.

Press ‘RET’ (‘wwe-follow-link’ via ‘push-button’) with point on a link or ‘<mouse-2>’ to follow a link. To follow a link and view it in an external browser using ‘browse-url’ press ‘<C-M-return>’ (‘wwe-browse-link-or-url-at-point’).

mailto, news, and ftp links are taken care of by other emacs functions by way of hooks in ‘wwe-follow-link-functions’. You can also add your own.

You can see the link URL with the link’s title shown before it in the echo area (see ‘wwe-show-link-titles’) when you move the mouse over a link, cycle through links, or by typing ‘o l’ (‘wwe-show-link-url’) when the point is on a link button. Press ‘w l’ (‘wwe-kill-link-url’) to kill the link URL.

Visited links are displayed as such. When you visit a URL, all links to that URL in all WwE buffers change to the ‘wwe-visited’ face. See the variables ‘wwe-render-show-visited-links’ and ‘wwe-follow-link-change-face’. Set ‘url-history-track’ to non-nil to enable the history for the current Emacs session or to t if you’d like to save the history at the end of each Emacs session.

If you’d like to show URLs in the current page instead of links, use ‘_ u’ (‘wwe-rerender-show-urls’) to rerender the page. URLs are then formatted like org-mode links. See also the variable ‘wwe-render-show-urls’.

Audio, video, and embedded objects are displayed as links showing the object type followed by the URL. This URL is truncated by the value of ‘wwe-render-object-url-length’, by default 60.