[Conkeror] Gmail mode - why do you need a TAB?

[Bill Clementson]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
<jeremy at jeremyms.com> wrote:
> "Bill Clementson" <billclem at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> In gmail-mode, why is it necessary to press TAB before any gmail keys
>> are recognized? For example, if I press "x", nothing happens; however,
>> if I press TAB and then "x", the first email message will be "ticked".
>
> This may actually a problem with gmail itself: it may be that the keys
> are all bound in some iframe, rather than the top-level frame, and
> pressing tab serves to set focus to that iframe.  There is some code in
> gmail mode designed specifically to ensure that focus is set up
> correctly automatically, but it might not be working for you, or the
> site might have changed, or there might be some other problem.  I'll see
> about looking into a little bit.

Thanks.

> A better solution may be to have all of the pass-through keys
> automatically set focus correctly in addition to letting the key pass
> through.

Yes, that would be much better.

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Bill Clementson