Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[Lennart Borgman]

2009/7/21 Adam Wołk <address@hidden>:
> 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).

Thanks for explaining.


> 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).


There are some users of Emacs (like me) that never use these key
bindings since we prefer Viper. So we would really want a combination
of vi+emacs keybindings in other applications too.