Re: emacs <----> firefox

[Jonas Damm]

Exwm is just mapping the individual windows to emacs buffers. The
function 
   efs/exwm-update-title ()
changes the buffername to the title of the tab.

After that you can use any function you prefer to search a tab. I use
counsel-switch-to-buffer. This allows to type only a few characters of
the tab-title to find and preview it directly.

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> thank you.  is this a combination of putting all tabs into windows and
> using exwm to filter those?  exwm is intriguing, however, 1000 windows
> would not be possible for me and i am currently stuck with fluxbox.
>
> also, i meant for my question to be open-ended, i.e. this kind of
> thing and any kind of emacs <----> firefox stuff is welcome. i don't
> know what is really possible out there or written without yet being
> published etc.  so i do not mean to limit this query to searching tabs
> but also include other things that currently are not possible to do in
> firefox.  thus nobody off topic.
>
> [for all i know, maybe there is a comprehensive-ish org-mode / firefox
> dot files / whatever kind of thingie.]
>
>
> On 4/21/22, Jonas Damm <emails@jonas-damm.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The following is a solution I copied from David Wilsons
>> "emacs-from-scratch" repository:
>>
>> You could configure Firefox to open every tab as a new window, for
>> example by using the "i hate tabs" extension.
>>
>> I am using exwm, so I have this in my emacs config:
>>
>>   (defun efs/exwm-update-title ()
>>     (pcase exwm-class-name
>>       ("Firefox-esr" (exwm-workspace-rename-buffer (format "Firefox: %s"
>> exwm-title)))
>>       ("qutebrowser" (exwm-workspace-rename-buffer (format "Qutebrowser: %s"
>> exwm-title)))))
>>
>> You can find out more about this here:
>> https://github.com/daviwil/emacs-from-scratch/blob/f4918aadf6970b098999d28bdbc212942aa62b80/show-notes/Emacs-Desktop-03.org
>>
>> With this, you can fuzzy search your tabs by the switch-to-buffer
>> command or with counsel-switch-to-buffer, which i prefer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> that sounds very interesting.  i am glad alternatives like that are
>>> being developed.  however, i am very interested in the emacs <---->
>>> firefox thing, but i don't think i have it in me to try an entirely
>>> new gui browser, for a variety of reasons.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/21/22, Hendursaga <hendursaga@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>> i thought perhaps some firefox <----> emacs thing could help.
>>>>>
>>>>> any ideas here?  other than don't have 1000 tabs?
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't directly answer your question, but have you looked into the
>>>> Nyxt browser[1]? It's mostly written in Common Lisp and one could
>>>> describe
>>>> it as an aspiring Emacs of web browsers. Tab filtering / switching is one
>>>> of
>>>> its strengths. In addition, there are ways of interoperating with Emacs,
>>>> see
>>>> for instance, some of Andrea's blog articles[2].
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
>>>> [2] https://ag91.github.io/tags/nyxt/
>>>>
>>
>>