[Conkeror] Braindump about buffer handling

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard jeremy at jeremyms.com
Sun Mar 22 11:05:33 PDT 2009


Probably best to add it as a new command, or as a variable that controls
the behavior of the existing command.  Due to the way those commands are
organized, currently, though, it would probably be easiest to add it as
a new command to which users can then rebind C-x C-f if they want to use
it.

Note that it may be difficult to get it to work in a useful way without
a bunch of heuristics, for the reason that what you type to reach a
particular web page is not often exactly the URL of the page after it
has been opened, due to reasons including: what the user typed may be
missing a protocol prefix; the page can be accessed by multiple
equivalent URLs; there may have been a redirect of some sort involved;
the user may have navigated to a subpage, a #target, or something
similar.  There is also the issue that the user may indeed want the same
URL open twice and the browser may not be displaying the same content
despite it being the same URL, particularly when JavaScript is being
used to do something fancy, such as with maps.google.com.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard


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