eww (web browser)

eww

eww rendering the Emacs article on English Wikipedia
Developer(s) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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.

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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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