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Eww GNU Emacs 24.4.png
A rendering of the Emacs article on English Wikipedia by eww
Developer(s)Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Repository Edit this at Wikidata
Written inEmacs Lisp
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb browser
LicenseGPL 3+
WebsiteGNU Emacs manual

Emacs Web Wowser (a backronym of "eww"[1]) is a web browser written entirely in Emacs Lisp. It became 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. Written by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, it was originally developed as part of the Emacs mail reader Gnus, to display HTML-formatted email, but with the addition of HTTP support from Emacs' url.el package it became a fully-fledged browser.

See also

  • w3m used with emacs-w3m interface
  • Emacs/W3

References

  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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Edited: 2021-06-18 12:38:52
Source: Wikipedia.org