[Conkeror] [PATCH] find-url with blank url reloads buffer.

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net> writes:

> David Kettler <David.Kettler at dsto.defence.gov.au> writes:
>>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> I like it.
>> 
>> Something I never liked in firefox was that you couldn't be sure
>> whether something typed would be interpreted as a url, a mozilla
>> keyword or something to pass to a search engine.  And you couldn't
>> tell what keywords were defined.  That doesn't arise in conkeror
>> because the completion system gives feedback on how the string will be
>> interpreted.  So I think a default-webjump thing would work well.
>> 
>> I'm happy to put some effort into the easy version; it seems
>> straightforward enough, if I can figure out the validation part.  The
>> difficult version sounds very nice but it's beyond my current
>> knowledge and I won't be able to invest the time into it for a long
>> while.  Perhaps that can be left as a longer term goal.
>> 
>> regards, David.

> Sounds good to me.  I can see that modular completions are going to be a
> very involving feature to implement, if we end up doing it that way.

I don't think it will be much work to implement, since merge_completers
already exists.  However, note that URL handlers would not necessarily
go with completers.  For instance, bookmark and history completion does
not involve any special URL handling, while web jumps have a special
completer as well as special URL handling.  It would seem, though, that
if this more complicated interface is to be used solely to implement
the "default webjump" feature and David Kettler's "blank URL implies
reload" feature, then perhaps it is not really what should be done.

To David:

Are you simply trying to free up the "r" key binding or something?

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard