3.4 Reusable buffers including buffer history

Each time you call a ‘wwe’ function to visit a page a new buffer is opened, unless you are already in a WwE buffer. See the following for buffer reuse behavior.

WwE buffers are reused by default (the minor mode ‘global-wwe-reuse-buffer-mode’ is enabled). This means when you visit pages or click links from within a browser buffer, the buffer is used again. Type ‘M-x global-wwe-reuse-buffer-mode RET’ to change this.

Typing ‘M-x wwe-toggle-reuse-this-buffer RET’ changes the setting of ‘wwe-reuse-this-buffer’ per buffer to one of three choices: reuse, don’t reuse, maybe reuse (use the value of ‘global-wwe-reuse-buffer-mode’).

Press ‘<S-return>’ (‘wwe-follow-link-same/new-buffer’) or ‘<s-mouse-1>’ (‘<S-mouse-2>’ if ‘mouse-1-click-follows-link’ or ‘mouse-1-click-in-non-selected-windows’ is nil) on a link to do the opposite of what the current setting is - follow the link in the same buffer if you’re not reusing the buffer or follow the link in a new buffer.

Forms follow the same rules by default. If you’d like to submit forms in the same buffer all the time, whether or not you’re reusing the buffer, set ‘wwe-forms-reuse-buffer’ to non-nil.

Pages have a buffer history when you reuse the buffer. In rendered pages press ‘C-c C-b’ (‘wwe-history-back’) to go back and ‘C-c C-f’ (‘wwe-history-forward’) to go forward. Add ‘C-c .’ to the beginning of those key bindings in wwe-minor-mode pages.