"John J. Foerch" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:06:48PM +0800, zwz wrote:
>> I am an Emacser and now starting using Conkeror.
>> I really enjoy it!
>>
>> However, in comparison to Emacs, I find Conkeror not-such-extensible
>> 1. On Windows, if I start Conkeror from MSYS/bash which exports $HOME,
>> Conkeror still has no idea about the path "~" and does not load the
>> rc-file. And it is annoying that "/" can not be used as the path
>> separator.
>> 2. "shell-command" is not supported, and I cannot use emacsclient to
>> edit the text field. I just wonder if it is possible to
>> assign a shell-program (variable) to enable shell-command, just like
>> what emacs does.
>> 3. Is it possible to define where the extensions (or the profile)
> should
>> go? On windows, it currently goes to somewhere in "c:\Documents and
>> Settings\admin\Application
>> Data\conkeror.mozdev.org\conkeror\Profiles\". But personally, I would
>> like it to go to some directory in the Conkeror master repository so
>> that I can easily port it to other computers.
>>
>> Since I am not familiar with Xulrunner, I don't whether my request is
>> feasible or not. Just a few thoughts.
>>
>> Btw, does the javascript_debugger-0.9.88.1 (Venkman) work in the
> latest
>> Conkeror? The wiki says that it can be used by "M-x venkman", but I
> find
>> no such command.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> zwz
>
>
> Hi,
>
> 1,2: Glad you like conkeror. Our development on the Windows platform is
> lagging a bit, as I don't have a machine available for Windows
> development
> and testing. :-\
It is understandable, since Windows is never the best option for
development. :)
I installed MSYS/MINGW to make my Windows Linux-like, so that in Emacs I
need not care the difference of OS. I achieved this by setting HOME (and
other things) during the start-up of Emacs on Windows (not on Linux).
Therefore the system HOME is not changed for ever but only temporarily
within the Emacs process. This enables Emacs to run in a separate
context.
I mentioned 1&2&3 for the same reason. However, currently when I start
Conkeror within Emacs (where $HOME is some dir/to/my/.emacs, say,
'd:/emacs/home/.emacs'), Conkeror still tries to load the rc-file in
'c:\Documents and Settings\admin\', not "~/.conkerorrc".
I found two workarounds:
1. write a shell script by setting the location of my rc-file
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
/xulrunner/xulrunner.exe /xulrunner/apps/conkeror/application.ini -E
'default_pref("conkeror.rcfile", "d:\\emacs\\home\\.conkerorrc");' "$@"
#+END_SRC
It succeeds the first time I run the script within Emacs. However, the
next time I run it within Emacs, there comes a alert dialog saying "d:
is not a supported protocol". I guess it is a bug.
So I have to fall back to the second method:
1. set the location once for ever in Conkeror by M-: user_pref
It is acceptable.
BUT for "shell-command", it seems not supported at all on Windows,
because the minibuf says "Your OS is not yet supported" when I try to
run some commands (for example, view_source_use_external_editor).
I am really long for the shell-command-support, is it impossible by
assigning a shell-program (variable) to enable shell-command, just like
what emacs does?
>
> 3: yes. When you make a profile with 'conkeror -ProfileManager' you can
> set the profile directory. I'm not sure it's wise to share profiles
> across different machines though. There could be all kinds of problems
> with that.
I agree with you. The wiki says Conkeror looks for plugins in dir
"plugin" first, which is really helpful to make Conkeror run in a closed
context. That is why I asked whether it is possible to tell Conkeror to
look for extensions in some dir in the master repository. But there
maybe some differences between plugins and extensions.
>
> To get the M-x venkman command, put the following in your rc (or eval it
> with M-:)
>
> require("venkman");
Thanks. Now it works like a charm.
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