bug#37592: Using tabs in EWW

[Juri Linkov]

Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Like <C-mouse-1> in web browsers opens links in a new tab,
the attached patch does the same for EWW.

The change that implements support for tabs in EWW is just 3 lines:

    (when eww-browse-url-new-window-is-tab
      (let ((tab-bar-new-tab-choice t))
        (tab-new)))

Everything else is replicating the existing code:

1. A new defcustom eww-browse-url-new-window-is-tab is a copy
   of existing browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab

2. The docstring for eww-browse-url is copied from browse-url-firefox

3. The code for shr-browse-url is copied from browse-url-at-point

diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index fb495a9858..a39f8b87cc 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -876,9 +876,32 @@ eww-mode
   (buffer-disable-undo)
   (setq buffer-read-only t))
 
+(defcustom eww-browse-url-new-window-is-tab nil
+  "Whether to open up new windows in a tab or a new buffer.
+If non-nil, then open the URL in a new tab rather than a new buffer if
+`eww-browse-url' is asked to open it in a new window."
+  :version "27.1"
+  :group 'eww
+  :type 'boolean)
+
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun eww-browse-url (url &optional new-window)
+  "Ask the EWW browser to load URL.
+
+Interactively, if the variable `browse-url-new-window-flag' is non-nil,
+loads the document in a new buffer tab on the window tab-line.  A non-nil
+prefix argument reverses the effect of `browse-url-new-window-flag'.
+
+If `eww-browse-url-new-window-is-tab' is non-nil, then
+whenever a document would otherwise be loaded in a new buffer, it
+is loaded in a new tab in the tab-bar on an existing frame.
+
+Non-interactively, this uses the optional second argument NEW-WINDOW
+instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
   (when new-window
+    (when eww-browse-url-new-window-is-tab
+      (let ((tab-bar-new-tab-choice t))
+        (tab-new)))
     (pop-to-buffer-same-window
      (generate-new-buffer
       (format "*eww-%s*" (url-host (url-generic-parse-url
diff --git a/lisp/net/shr.el b/lisp/net/shr.el
index ef236bf7c4..390be4deff 100644
--- a/lisp/net/shr.el
+++ b/lisp/net/shr.el
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ shr-map
     (define-key map [?\M-\t] 'shr-previous-link)
     (define-key map [follow-link] 'mouse-face)
     (define-key map [mouse-2] 'shr-browse-url)
+    (define-key map [C-down-mouse-1] 'shr-mouse-browse-url-new-window)
     (define-key map "I" 'shr-insert-image)
     (define-key map "w" 'shr-maybe-probe-and-copy-url)
     (define-key map "u" 'shr-maybe-probe-and-copy-url)
@@ -967,7 +968,13 @@ shr-mouse-browse-url
   (mouse-set-point ev)
   (shr-browse-url))
 
-(defun shr-browse-url (&optional external mouse-event)
+(defun shr-mouse-browse-url-new-window (ev)
+  "Browse the URL under the mouse cursor in a new window."
+  (interactive "e")
+  (mouse-set-point ev)
+  (shr-browse-url nil nil t))
+
+(defun shr-browse-url (&optional external mouse-event new-window)
   "Browse the URL at point using `browse-url'.
 If EXTERNAL is non-nil (interactively, the prefix argument), browse
 the URL using `browse-url-secondary-browser-function'.
@@ -987,7 +994,9 @@ shr-browse-url
           (progn
            (funcall browse-url-secondary-browser-function url)
             (shr--blink-link))
-       (browse-url url))))))
+       (browse-url url (if new-window
+                           (not browse-url-new-window-flag)
+                         browse-url-new-window-flag)))))))
 
 (defun shr-save-contents (directory)
   "Save the contents from URL in a file."