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conkeror (1.0~~pre+git130407-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Spellchecking is no longer enabled by default. To allow Gecko to
    decorate your text boxes with red marks, put the following in your
    rc: session_pref("layout.spellcheckDefault", 1);

  * The deprecated procedures add_delicious_webjumps and
    add_lastfm_webjumps have now been removed. Use
    define_delicious_webjumps and define_lastfm_webjumps instead.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:32:59 +0100

conkeror (1.0~~pre+git120527-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * hints-minibuffer-annotation-mode is now enabled by default. To disable:

    hints_minibuffer_annotation_mode(false);

  * Variable hints_display_url_panel removed. Instead of the url-panel,
    Conkeror now has hints-minibuffer-annotation-mode. To use it:

    hints_minibuffer_annotation_mode(true);

  * buffer_loaded_hook now fires only for the main document of the buffer,
    not documents in subframes.

  * The test property of page-mode objects is now an array.

  * in_module removed

    The module system introduced 2010-03-19 had a fatal flaw in its
    design. We have known about this for quite some time, but fixing it
    was a complex undertaking. Now the 'in_module' procedure has been
    removed from the program, because it doesn't work, and a new module
    system has been added, the jsx module system.

    Anybody who has written a module that is not part of Conkeror will
    need to update their code. Remove uses of 'in_module'. If you only did
    'in_module(null);' then you can just remove that line and you are
    done. If you used 'in_module("module_name");' you will need to remove
    that, and rename your file to have the extension ".jsx". The rest of
    the filename should match the name of the module, except using hyphens
    to separate words.

  * skip_module_load removed

  * casual-spelling.js renamed to casual-spelling.jsx

  * The "up-url" browser object will now trim a #ref fragment as one of its
    steps. New buffers with an opener buffer in the same window open to the
    right of their opener.

  * build_url_regex renamed to build_url_regexp

  * choice_regex renamed to choice_regexp

  * Call forms of define_buffer_mode and define_page_mode changed.  See
    http://conkeror.org/WritingBufferModes and
    http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes.

  * auto_mode_alist no longer exists.

    The way to deactivate page-modes has changed.

    Instead of the old way of doing complicated array manipulations on
    'auto_mode_list', the new way is much simpler. If I want to deactivate
    xkcd-mode for example (make it so it won't automatically turn on when
    I visit xkcd), I do the following:

    page_mode_deactivate(xkcd_mode);

    The call form to enable or disable a buffer-mode or page-mode in javascript has changed.

    (Note the distinction between 'deactivating' and 'disabling'.) Instead
    of the mode being a function that takes a flag -1/+1 or true/false
    (like in emacs), it is now an object with 'enable' and 'disable'
    methods:

    some_mode.enable(buffer);

    some_mode.disable(buffer);

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 27 May 2012 16:37:13 +0200

conkeror (1.0~~pre+git120102-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * clusty webjump removed. clusty no longer exists.

  * The copy command now copies the action attribute of the form when
    called on a submit button.

  * Google-maps: changed bindings '+' and '-' to 'C-c +' and 'C-c -',
    because it is poor practice to override basic browsing keys then they
    are still clearly useful on the site in question.

  * Renamed get_file_in_path to find_file_in_path.

  * Formfill is now enabled by default. To turn it off, do:
    session_pref("browser.formfill.enable", false);

  * youtube_scrape_function and associated helpers removed.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 27 May 2012 16:37:13 +0200

conkeror (0.9.3+git110307-2) unstable; urgency=low

  The search order for searching xulrunner binaries has been changed
  since current state became quite confusing:
  
  /usr/bin/conkeror first looked for the xulrunner of Squeeze and Sid
  (1.9.1), then the (former) experimental xulrunner (1.9.2), then the
  one from Lenny (1.9.0/generic 1.9), then the current one from
  experimental (2.0), and then for generic ones like the one from
  Sarge.
  
  It now looks first for xulrunner 2.0, then 1.9.2, then 1.9.1, then
  1.9 (aka 1.9.0) and then for a xulrunner binary without version
  suffix (as e.g. xulrunner 1.8 from Sarge used to be called). This
  means it now checks for the highest version first, then checks for
  lower and less specific versions, taking the generic one as last
  one.
  
  This should be more future-proof and is less Debian-centric,
  i.e. helps Debian-based distributions which maintain their own
  xulrunner packages. But it also helps people who have the xulrunner
  packages from experimental installed as conkeror now uses the xulrunner
  version from experimental if it is installed.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:41:21 +0100

conkeror (0.9.3+git110213-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * The format of the auto-save session file has changed slightly to be
    more robust. Conkeror automatically converts the file on first usage.

  * In the new-tabs module, the widgets that show the buffer index in each
    tab now have the class "tab2-index" instead of "tab2-icon". This
    change affects anybody who has written a theme which styles the
    new-tabs tab bar.

  * The variable edit_field_in_external_editor_extension has been removed,
    and superseded by a mime-type table
    external_editor_extension_overrides which maps mime types to
    extensions. If you previously used this variable to set the temp file
    extension to "foo", for example, you would update your rc to now do
    the following:

      external_editor_extension_overrides.set("text/plain", "foo");

  * The function get_filename_for_current_textfield has been superseded by
    external_editor_make_base_filename, which takes as its arguments the
    root element being edited and the top document of the buffer
    containing the element. The top document is more useful than the
    element's own ownerDocument in some cases, such as when about:blank is
    used for the document of an editable iframe. The new function returns
    only the base filename, with no extension, as the extension is
    generated by means described above.

  * buffer_favicon_change_hook renamed to buffer_icon_change_hook

  * current_buffer_favicon_change_hook renamed to
    current_buffer_icon_change_hook

  * reddit-mode is no longer loaded by default. Consensus was that it is a
    confusing mode, mainly because of how it overrides several default
    browser objects. If you use this mode, you will now need to load it by
    putting the following in your rc:

      require("reddit");

  * Module search-engine.js replaced by opensearch.js. API for defining
    opensearch webjumps has changed to be more conventional. Opensearch
    webjumps can now be defined like either of the following:

      define_opensearch_webjump("foo", make_file("/opensearch/files/foo.xml"));

      opensearch_load_paths.unshift(make_file("/opensearch/files/"));
      define_opensearch_webjump("foo", "foo.xml");

  * The browser object browser-object-links, which is used by follow,
    copy, etc, no longer matches anchors which do not have an href
    attribute.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:47:03 +0100

conkeror (0.9.3+git101015-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * The eval-expression command (M-:) now evaluates directly in
    application scope. This lets you do things like set user variables and
    define functions without fully qualifying names with "conkeror.".

  * Page-modes no longer bind alternative keys for keys that they shadow
    in the normal keymaps. These were bindings like 'C-c f' for follow,
    etc. The key C-z can now be used as a prefix to access bindings that
    are shadowed by a page-mode keymap.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:29:44 +0200

conkeror (0.9.3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Input-modes removed. Instead of an input-mode display in the
    minibuffer, there is now a keymaps-display.

    - quote-next-input-mode renamed to quote-next-mode
    - gmail_edit_keymap removed (no longer necessary)
    - buffer-reset-input-mode command removed (no longer necessary)

  * overlink_mode rewritten

    - content_buffer_overlink_change_hook removed
    - current_content_buffer_overlink_change_hook removed

  * Hinting now performs a case-sensitive match if the user's text
    includes upper-case letters.

  * stackoverflow-mode has been renamed to stackexchange-mode.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:02:21 +0200

conkeror (0.9.2+git100804-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Editing in the minibuffer is now done with the normal editing commands
    instead of a special set of editing commands. All of the editing
    commands which begin with the prefix "minibuffer-" have been
    removed. Also, editing commands are now bound in the keymap
    text_keymap instead of content_buffer_text_keymap and
    minibuffer_base_keymap. If you have written custom bindings for
    editing in your rc, you will need to change [pairs of] bindings like
    this:

      define_key(minibuffer_base_keymap, "C-l", "minibuffer-forward-char");
      define_key(content_buffer_text_keymap, "C-l", "forward-char");

    to this:

      define_key(text_keymap, "C-l", "forward-char");

  * In hinting mode, right and left are no longer bound to
    next/previous-hint. Hinting mode now supports editing in the
    minibuffer, so right and left move the cursor. Down, up, C-n, C-p,
    C-s, and C-r are all bound to next/previous-hint.

  * Due to a change in Mozilla as of XULRunner 1.9.3a5pre, Conkeror's
    feature of automatically loading glue code for extensions is no longer
    possible. This means that when you have one of the previously
    supported extensions installed, you will no longer automatically have
    Conkeror commands for using the extension. The extensions that were
    previously supported in this way were adblockplus, dom-inspector,
    noscript, and venkman. If you have any of these extensions installed,
    you will now have to load the glue module from your rc, with a line
    like the following, substituting in the appropriate module name:

      require("dom-inspector");

    With some of these modules, loading the module when the extension is
    not installed could result in an error, so to be safe, you could wrap
    the call to 'require' in a try/catch block:

      try { require("dom-inspector"); } catch (e) {}

    Further information: http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue272

  * The variable download_buffer_automatic_open_target can no longer be an
    array of two targets. This is a reversion from 2009-06-07 back to how
    it was before. The behavior of the download-show command is now
    configured independently of this variable. To configure download-show,
    use set_handler and alternates. The following handlers are provided:
    download_show_new_window, download_show_new_buffer,
    download_show_new_buffer_background. The default handler of
    download_show is alternates(download_show_new_buffer,
    download_show_new_window).

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:04:22 +0200

conkeror (0.9.2+git100420-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Function load_rc no longer supports loading arbitrary js files. Use
    load instead.

  * Function load_rc_file removed. Use load instead.

  * call_after_load now takes a feature name, not a filename. In general
    this simply means trimming off any ".js" extension.

  * Modules API overhaul (already included in 0.9.2-1 and caused the
    uploads 0.9.2+git100324-1 and -2):
    - Modules should have an in_module assertion as their first
      expression. For modules to be loaded directly into application
      scope, it should be in_module(null);
    - Modules should have as their last expression a provide call, like
      provide("feature"); where "feature" is the name of the feature
      provided by the module.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:38:49 +0200

conkeror (0.9.1+git100317-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * emacswiki webjump removed. better version posted on
    http://conkeror.org/Webjumps

  * M-< and home keys now scroll to the top left corner of the buffer.

  * minibuffer.read_url now returns a load_spec instead of a simple
    string.

  * The command confirm-quit has been removed. To have a quit
    confirmation, see the code example on
    http://conkeror.org/BreakingChanges

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:04:20 +0100

conkeror (0.9.1+git100131-1) unstable; urgency=low

  Please see http://conkeror.org/BreakingChanges for the complete list of
  breaking changes. Just the most important ones are listed here.
  
  * mime_type_external_handlers removed. Replaced by
    external_content_handlers.
  
  * define_buffer_mode, define_input_mode, and define_page_mode no longer
    take display_name or doc as positional arguments. They are now given
    as keyword arguments: $display_name and $doc.
  
  * The variable browser_automatic_form_focus_window_duration was renamed
    to block_content_focus_change_duration.
  
  * The commands follow-current, follow-current-new-buffer,
    follow-current-new-buffer-background, and follow-current-new-window
    have been removed.
  
  * browser_prevent_automatic_form_focus_mode has been renamed and put in
    its own file. To use this mode, simply do this:
    require("block-content-focus-change.js");

  * The default of hints_auto_exit_delay has been changed to 0.

    This change means that by default, the user has to hit return to exit
    the hints interaction. This change makes Conkeror's UI more
    predictable for new users, less prone to run unintended commands
    because of extra keystrokes outside the timeout window, and removes
    assumptions about people's typing speed, browsing style, and focus of
    attention when using the hints system.
  
    To use the hints-auto-exit feature, put a line like the following in
    your rc, adjusting the number to suit your preference. 500 was the old
    default.

      hints_auto_exit_delay = 500;

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:55:04 +0100

conkeror (0.9~git090708-1) unstable; urgency=low

  The conkeror Debian package now works with the upcoming experimental
  xulrunner-1.9.1 packages (see http://glandium.org/blog/?p=370) in
  Debian, too.
  
  Since conkeror still throws much more warnings with xulrunner 1.9.1 than
  with 1.9.0.x, for now the package currently prefers 1.9.0.x over 1.9.1
  if both are installed.
  
  Call "xulrunner-1.9.1 /usr/share/conkeror/application.ini" if you have
  xulrunner-1.9 and xulrunner-1.9.1 installed and want to checkout
  conkeror in combination with xulrunner 1.9.1.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:48:36 +0200

conkeror (0.9~git090617-1) unstable; urgency=low

  There were a few changes since the last conkeror version in Debian which
  may cause troubles to users of the previous version.
  
  Short summary follows:
  * The key bindings `<<` and `>>` are now simply `<` and `>`.
  * page-mode keymaps are now declared in the `define_page_mode` form with
    a new keyword argument, `$keymaps`.  See
    http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes for more information about the
    new style.
  * `default_directory` and `set_default_directory` have been removed and
    replaced by the variable `cwd`.
  * buffer-local variables are now indexed by `buffer.local.foo`.
    page-local variables are indexed by `buffer.page.local.foo`.
  * The command `send-ret` was removed since it is redundant of the
    module `global-overlay-keymap`.
  * Buffer-local cwd is no longer set or inherited automatically.
  * `download-cancel` is now bound to `d` instead of `C-g`, and it asks
    for confirmation.
  * In order to make Conkeror compatible with native toolkit theming,
    Conkeror's themes have undergone a big rewrite:
    - Conkeror no longer specifies its own gui colors.
    - The blackened theme no longer exists.
    - It is no longer possible to theme scrollbars.
    From now on, the right way to change Conkeror's gui colors is to do so
    at the OS level, for example, with a GTK theme.
  * Conkeror has now session saving support. See
    http://conkeror.org/Sessions for details.

  See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.conkeror/1547 and
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.conkeror/1451 for the
  details and what to change in case you run over some removed or renamed
  functions or variables.
  
 -- Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:04:58 +0200

conkeror (0.9~git090223-1) unstable; urgency=low

  There were a few changes since the last conkeror version in Debian which
  may cause troubles to users of the previous version:
  * Changes to the behaviour of the universal argument C-u.
  * Loads now ~/.conkerorrc as the default rc file
  * Many simple webjumps previously enabled by default have been removed
    from upstream. Non-default webjumps are now collected and shared at
    http://conkeror.org/Webjumps
  * Many additional keybindings, e.g.
      - pasting current paste buffer content bound to `C-y'
      - new command `submit-form' bound to `C-c C-c' in forms
  * Incremental search for URLs in the mini-buffer can currently include
    _either_ the history or the bookmarks, but not both at the same
    time. See http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue10 for details on choosing
    which one to use.

 -- Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>  Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:04:41 +0100