Download of URL in EWW falls back on current URL

* lisp/net/eww.el (eww-download): If there's no URL at point,
download the current URL instead.  Previous behavior was to
signal an error if there was no URL at point.  (Bug#34291)
* doc/misc/eww.texi (Basics): Update documentation.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/eww.texi b/doc/misc/eww.texi
index b299ea1fb77..3048893372e 100644
--- a/doc/misc/eww.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/eww.texi
@@ -125,9 +125,10 @@ HTML-specified colors or not.  This sets the @code{shr-use-colors} variable.
 @vindex eww-download-directory
 @kindex d
 @cindex Download
-  A URL under the point can be downloaded with @kbd{d}
-(@code{eww-download}).  The file will be written to the directory
-specified in @code{eww-download-directory} (Default: @file{~/Downloads/}).
+  A URL can be downloaded with @kbd{d} (@code{eww-download}).  This
+will download the link under point if there is one, or else the URL of
+the current page.  The file will be written to the directory specified
+in @code{eww-download-directory} (default: @file{~/Downloads/}).
 
 @findex eww-back-url
 @findex eww-forward-url
diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index 3b7d9d5c2f9..0c8bffa579b 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -1531,10 +1531,12 @@ Differences in #targets are ignored."
   (kill-new (plist-get eww-data :url)))
 
 (defun eww-download ()
-  "Download URL under point to `eww-download-directory'."
+  "Download URL to `eww-download-directory'.
+Use link under point if there is one, else the current page URL."
   (interactive)
   (access-file eww-download-directory "Download failed")
-  (let ((url (get-text-property (point) 'shr-url)))
+  (let ((url (or (get-text-property (point) 'shr-url)
+                 (eww-current-url))))
     (if (not url)
         (message "No URL under point")
       (url-retrieve url 'eww-download-callback (list url)))))