[Conkeror] changing URL completion choices

[John J Foerch]

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> writes:
> A browser object class is not necessarily related to the hints system.
> The media browser object class uses completion to select among
> alternatives, for instance.  Although potentially using the hints system
> might be nice, as you say it might be difficult and I was just thinking
> of using minibuffer completion.

Right.  All of the existing browser-objects, I believe, happen to be DOM
elements, but the concept is not limited to that at all.  In the case of
a "history" browser-object-class, the selection UI would be the
completions system (not the hints system), and the browser object that
gets returned would be an nsIURI.

The UI of find-url would appear to work exactly as it does now.
However, by wrapping history-completion up as a browser-object-class, it
would be more directly possible to use history-completion with all of
the other browser-object commands.  The "copy" command is always one
that comes to mind that would be particularly convenient to be able to
use with webjumps, bookmarks, and history.

-- 
John Foerch