[Conkeror] minor browser nits

[Mark Eichin]

Ah, given that, a quick search turns up
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_tips
and "Enabling Password Manager" lists a set of prefs (I set them up
with about:config, will see how that works out.)

As for cmd_wordNext, google stumbled across
http://paste.lisp.org/display/49755 which actually has exactly the
changes I was thinking of, so it isn't just me :-)

On Nov 16, 2007 3:22 AM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> wrote:
> "Mark Eichin" <eichin at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 1. where would I start to get form-auto-fill?  (It'd be nice to have
> > it at all - but I also want to be able to add some special cases, like
> > noticing openid-looking forms and filling in the appropriate site
> > there...)
>
> I think all of the password manager and form-fill stuff is available in
> xulrunner, provided that you set the appropriate preferences.  I do not
> know what those preferences are, but I'll try to find out eventually.
> If you find out, please let me.  I believe the relevant keywords are
> "Form Manager", "Password Manager", "Session history caching", and
> autocompletion.  Of course the built-in autocomplete feature has its
> limitations, but it might be good enough for your purposes.
>
> > 2. m-b and m-f (cmd_wordPrevious, cmd_wordNext) would be a lot more
> > useful on urls if they treated / as a word separator (like emacs does,
> > after all.)  Tracing those in the source vanishes into
> > getControllerForCommand().doCommand - I take it those are lower-level
> > xulrunner builtins, then?
>
> It seems that we will have to implement at least those two commands
> directly in JavaScript in order to make these work better.  This won't
> be very difficult, especially with the infrastructure changes; I'll try
> to implement this shortly.
>
> --
> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
>



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