eww (web browser)
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| Developer(s) | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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| Written in | Emacs Lisp |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | GNU 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 , 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.
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- ^ "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.
- ^ "Emacs 24.4 released".
A built-in web browser (M-x eww)
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