[Conkeror] conkeror-xr: is it just me, or does M-: not work?

[John J Foerch]

"Mark Eichin" <eichin at gmail.com> writes:
> Conkeror/xulrunner 0.42.42.20071101 (git), M-: doesn't do anything,
> but M-x eval-expression works fine.
>
> If I do a
>
> define_key(top_kmap, kbd (";",MOD_META),"eval-expression");
>
> (semicolon instead of colon) all of a sudden, M-: works.  Noting that
> colon is just shift-semicolon on us-qwerty, is this just a
> shift-handling bug in the modifier code?
>
> -- 
> _Mark_ <eichin at thok.org> <eichin at gmail.com>

Hi Mark,

This bug was introduced upstream.  I believe the following bugzilla
"fix" may be what introduced it:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61355> In summary,
XULRunner sends the wrong character code to compensate for people who
don't know how to operate their caps lock key.  I hesitate to change
conkeror's key binding to hack around an upstream bug--(since when is
":" an upper-case ";"?)--argh.

--John