Re: Make emacs-eww render asynchronously

[Óscar Fuentes]

YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I am facing a funny problem about Emacs browsers.
>
> The story is: I was using emacs-w3m to browse Rust API docs.
>
> You know some pages are very large, like this one:
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
>
> The emacs-w3m fetches the page asynchronously, but the rendering process
> will freeze Emacs for a long time.

It is practically instantaneous here. The only observable delay (less
than a second) is for fetching the data.

> The eww opens it rather fast, but its functionality is not so good
> compared with emacs-w3m.
>
> Is it a way to make emacs-w3m render pages asynchronously?

I don't think so.

> Or should I start to use eww exclusively instead of emacs-w3m?

Use whatever works for you.

I suggest an experiment: create a local copy of that web page on your
computer and visit it with eww (something like M-x eww [enter]
file:///path/to/the/html/file). See if takes too long. Repeat it running
Emacs with "emacs -Q" and see if the delay goes away.