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Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser
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Adam Wołk |
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Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser |
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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:26:02 +0200 |
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Dnia 21-07-2009 o 21:01:21 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
napisał(a):
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Adam Wołk<address@hidden> wrote:
Benefits of helping out with this project:
* Conkeror can be fully controlled from withing emacs using mozrepl
Please explain in what way it is better to use Conkeror than Firefox for
this.
If You refer to mozrepl and scripting only. Then I would assume that
concepts taken from Emacs and implemented in conkeror will make it a more
natural platform to extend for current Emacs users. Unfortunately this is
a wild guess on my part as I really haven't tried to code for either
platform (conkeror and Firefox).
Some other things that came to my mind:
Conkeror has implemented massive amounts of functionality in ways that
Emacs users expect.
For example I quickly checked the following set of common tasks with basic
text edition:
* C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b, M-f, M-b, C-t, M-t, C-a, C-e, C-v, M-v
* C-s, C-r
* C-w,M-w,C-y,C-k
* Marks and regions are used for operations (C-SPACE, C-x C-x)
All of them work as expected. This makes it easier and more natural to tab
between both applications (Emacs and conkeror).
The interface is styled after Emacs and is designed to be fully keyboard
driven.
The browser works with 'buffers' while firefox still defaults to tabs.
It's actively developed and mostly by people who already are Emacs users.
Do to the nature of the project it should be easier to have specific
features accepted in the upstream then with Firefox.
Consider sending a patch for Firefox to improve Emacs compatibility - I
don't think it would concern most developers.
Of course this could be done as an extensions to Firefox. In fact conkeror
started that way and they decided to go all the way down.
I believe that having a good default and supported browser that integrates
well with Emacs would be great.
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