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

[Mark Eichin]

Wow, that's... special.  Since I can't think of a use for comment-dwim
(the emacs binding for m-; ) in conkeror, I'll use the hack for now,
and hope for upstream to eventually come to their senses :-)

On 11/5/07, John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net> wrote:
> "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
>
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