[Conkeror] flailing about on upgrade

[Mark Eichin]

I'd been running an older 0.42 out of git, and as part of a general
upgrade (ff3, ubuntu 8.04 alpha, etc.) I upgraded to current git as of
yesterday.  This hasn't gone well :-)  I had a lot of customizations
that depended on internals which have (reasonably enough) changed.
Some of them I've been able to just delete, because the underlying
functions are sufficient now (yay.)  Some things I'm still mystified
by:

  * conkeror.url_remoting_fn = conkeror.find_url_new_buffer;  is now,
*approximately*,
     url_remoting_fn = load_url_in_new_buffer;
     except that that loads it in a background buffer, not in a
foreground one like the old way...

Ah, turns out that I can redefine it:
function load_url_in_new_buffer_really(url, ctx) {
    create_buffer_in_current_window(buffer_creator(content_buffer,
$load = url, $configuration = ctx.config),
                                    OPEN_NEW_BUFFER);
}

url_remoting_fn = load_url_in_new_buffer_really;

Shouldn't load_url_in_new_buffer just obey browser_default_open_target though?

  * I guessed correctly that "c 0" replaces C.  How do I *paste* into
the browser now? c-y does something I don't yet get, and m-space is
unbound...
  * "ReferenceError: XMLHttpRequest is not defined"  anyone know off
hand how I get at that from the rcfile now?
  * how do I get passthrough so that I can use gmail?

(My apologies if it sounds like I'm complaining - it's just that my
command bindings are in my fingers, not my head, so when they don't
work it gets really frustrating, and when I go back to classic
firefox, basic editting keys like c-n and c-p pop up windows which is
kind of painful :-)

On a related note - anyone using pyxpcom with conkeror?  It was a
plenary session topic at Pycon (mozilla team apparently considers
python "the first second-class language" :-) but I don't quite grok
the level at which it operates...

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_Mark_ <eichin at thok.org> <eichin at gmail.com>