On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, the eval-expression command (more fondly known as M-:) > evaluates its argument in a protected scope. The theory was to protect > users from accidentally overwriting important things in conkeror's > application scope. In practice, it's not so useful, because apart from > the odd bit of arithmetic, I find that the main reason I ever want to use > M-: is to redefine things in conkeror. Because of the protected scope, > variables have to be prefixed with "conkeror." and function definitions > have to be rephrased as assignments. > > Experience now tells me this is more hassle than benefit. Should we > change it? >
Yes, please! (For exactly the reason you outlined above.) Best regards, Riccardo _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
