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Hi,

To keep up with my RSS feeds, I use Gnus together with the
brilliant service of gwene.org.

I use eww as my standard browser.

Links from the gwene messages are opened in eww. When I am
done with such a page, I use 'q' in eww to quit the webpage
and revert to the message-list.

After such a session I end up with a lot of eww buffers,
labeled *eww*<2>, *eww*<3>, and so on.

- Is there a way to prevent the build-up of those buffers?
- Is there a way to quickly close all of the eww-buffers?
- Should I change my workflow?

Best regards,

Matto
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* Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org>
| After such a session I end up with a lot of eww buffers,
| labeled *eww*<2>, *eww*<3>, and so on.

| - Is there a way to prevent the build-up of those buffers?
| - Is there a way to quickly close all of the eww-buffers?

Here is what I use to get rid of unchanged buffers.
It should be easily adapted to kill only *eww* buffers:

;; Kill any unchanged buffers
(defconst kill-unchanged-buffers-dont-kill
(list (regexp-quote "*scratch*")
(regexp-quote "*info*")
(regexp-quote "*Async Shell Command*")
)
"List of buffer names regexps which should NOT be killed by `kill-unchanged-buffers'.
The regexps are anchored against beginning of buffer name.")

;; modified from a suggestion by Ralph Finch
(defun kill-unchanged-buffers ()
"Kill all unchanged buffers."
(interactive)
(let ((list (buffer-list)) (count 0))
(while list
(let* ((buffer (car list))
(name (buffer-name buffer)))
(and (not (string-equal name ""))
(not (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (elt) (string-match (concat "\\`" elt) name))
kill-unchanged-buffers-dont-kill)))
(/= (aref name 0) ? )
(if (buffer-modified-p buffer)
nil (kill-buffer buffer) (setq count (1+ count)))))
(setq list (cdr list)))
(message "Killed %d %s." count (if (/= count 1) "buffers" "buffer"))))

I have bound it on C-x C-k.

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-k" 'kill-unchanged-buffers)


HTH
R'
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Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> writes:

[...]

Hi Matto,

- Is there a way to prevent the build-up of those buffers?

You'd have to look for how eww is called here because by default "M-x
eww" is re-using *eww*

- Is there a way to quickly close all of the eww-buffers?

There is "M-x eww-list-buffers" where you could "C-k" those buffers.

- Should I change my workflow?

rCa or modify Emacs: nobody has definitive answer to this question yet ;-)
--
Manuel Giraud
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Hi Ralf,

sorry, was a few days off-line

On 21 April 2023 10:33 Ralf Fassel, wrote:

* Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org>
| After such a session I end up with a lot of eww buffers,
| labeled *eww*<2>, *eww*<3>, and so on.

| - Is there a way to prevent the build-up of those buffers?
| - Is there a way to quickly close all of the eww-buffers?

Here is what I use to get rid of unchanged buffers.
It should be easily adapted to kill only *eww* buffers:

;; Kill any unchanged buffers
(defconst kill-unchanged-buffers-dont-kill

[ ... ]

This looks to be will be very helpful !
I will try it and let you know :)

Thanks a lot,

Matto
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Hi Manuel,

sorry, was a few days offline

On 21 April 2023 13:26 Manuel Giraud, wrote:

- Is there a way to prevent the build-up of those buffers?

You'd have to look for how eww is called here because by default "M-x
eww" is re-using *eww*

this is a part from the code:

(pop-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*eww*"))
(eww-mode)
(eww url-to-open)

- Is there a way to quickly close all of the eww-buffers?

There is "M-x eww-list-buffers" where you could "C-k" those buffers.

Cool :)
Will try this out!

- Should I change my workflow?

rCa or modify Emacs: nobody has definitive answer to this question yet ;-)

He he :)

Thanks a lot,

Matto
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