[Conkeror] changing URL completion choices

John J Foerch jjfoerch at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 26 02:33:54 PDT 2008


Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> writes:
>
>>   You are browsing a webpage that has some non-hyperlinked URLs in the
>>   text.  You hit `g' and then some other key that invokes a completer
>>   that scrapes the non-hyperlinked URLs from the text, and uses them as
>>   a completions list.
>
> For this particular application, I think a browser object class may be
> appropriate.
>
>> It is easy to think of many other situations where novel sources would
>> be used to obtain a completions list.
>
> I wonder if many of these situations can likewise be solved using a
> browser object class.

  Yes, there is some overlap between the things for which browser
objects are best vs. completions.  In the case of non-hyperlinked URLs,
I have the impression, correct me if I'm wrong, that positioning the
hint elements is not quite possible, making completions the logical
choice.

-- 
John Foerch



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