eww (web browser)

eww

eww rendering the Emacs article on English Wikipedia
Developer(s) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Repository bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/annotate/head:/lisp/net/eww.el
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Web browser
License GPL 3+
Website GNU Emacs manual

eww (a backronym invented by author Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen[1] for "Emacs Web Wowser ") is a web browser written entirely in Emacs Lisp. It is part of GNU Emacs starting with version 24.4.[2] If Emacs is compiled with the suitable image libraries, and is used in a graphical environment (such as under the X Window System), it can render images inline directly into Emacs's display buffer. It requires an Emacs built with libxml2 support. It was originally developed as part of gnus, to display HTML-formatted email, but with the addition of HTTP support from Emacs' url.el package it became a fully-fledged browser.

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  1. ↑ "eww Random Thoughts". So this Monday, I came up with the name of the browser while half-asleep: eww! I don’t quite know what the second w is supposed to stand for (Emacs Web Wowser?), but now that I had a name I just had to start programming.
  2. ↑ "Emacs 24.4 released". A built-in web browser (M-x eww)


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