[Conkeror] flailing about on upgrade

[John J Foerch]

 "Mark Eichin" <eichin at gmail.com> writes:
>   * 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...

Mozilla's cmd_copy, cmd_cut, cmd_paste commands all work on X's
CLIPBOARD buffer, which is correct.  X also has a PRIMARY_SELECTION
buffer, which is supposed to be used for, well, the primary selection,
but some programs like Emacs pull funny business that mixes up
CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY_SELECTION.  I see that you already found the
command paste-x-primary-selection on Shift-Insert.  The old M-SPC
command was a strange hack--it just copied the contents of
PRIMARY_SELECTION into CLIPBOARD.  If you want to use C-y to work with
the PRIMARY_SELECTION, a better strategy is to just rebind C-y to
paste-x-primary-selection.


Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> writes:
> Possibly pyxpcom could allow Conkeror to be rewritten mostly from
> scratch in python, but that would be a lot of work and probably
> provide little gain.  Possibly the only advantage it would provide
> is speed --- JavaScript is actually quite a powerful language, but
> it is quite slow.  I think a lot of the noticeable slowness, though,
> is due to rendering rather than JavaScript.

Python?  Fast? ;)



--John