3 Using the web browser

Type ‘M-x wwe RET’ (‘u’ from within web pages) and enter the URL you wish to visit. ‘wwe’ accepts any of the supported URL types that Emacs’ URL retrieval library handles, but by default it only directly handles http and https URLs. Type ‘RET’ without entering a URL to visit the URL set in ‘wwe-homepage’. Other ways to visit a URL are ‘M-x wwe-url-at-point RET’ to visit the URL at point and ‘M-x wwe-region RET’ to visit the URL in region (‘wwe-region-size-limit’, by default set to 150, is checked to avoid accidentally using a region that’s not a URL).

If the page’s content-type is renderable, and a hook hasn’t taken care of the page, it gets rendered as HTML. The browser switches to the buffer when the page is ready to be viewed (see ‘wwe-page-ready-action’ to change this behavior).

Use ‘M-x wwe-switch-buffer RET’ to choose from a list of WwE buffers with ‘ido’ completion ordered by newest timestamp. Call ‘M-x wwe-switch-to-last-page RET’, ‘.’ from within a web page, to switch to the most recently retrieved page in the current window. If you already closed that buffer ‘wwe-switch-buffer’ is called instead.

If you’d like to visit a URL based on the current page’s URL, type ‘d’ (‘wwe-url-relative-directory’). The current URL including all directories without filename, parameters, and section is ready to enter in the mini-buffer.

Find out more about how to use the browser below.