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

Mark Eichin eichin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 10:32:33 PST 2007


That looks like it'll work, though I did double check Dvorak - colon
is still shift-semicolon in dvorak, but it's where qwerty puts the Z.
Shouldn't be a problem.

On 11/6/07, John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Mark Eichin" <eichin at gmail.com> writes:
> > 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 :-)
> >
>
> jbms and I talked about this problem in the irc channel last night,
> and his idea was to change conkeror's key handling system so we will
> always use `keyCode' and never use `charCode'.  `eval-expression' will
> be bound to `M-S-;' (meta shift semicolon).  Essentially, conkeror
> will no longer have any assumption about the existence of a `:' key,
> because mozilla no longer supplies that information.  He said he would
> write up this change when he has time, so a fix should be forthcoming
> in our experimental branch.
>
> --John
>
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