On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:01:16PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> 
> Hi List, 
> I have some problems with the shell commands in conkeror.
> 
> When pressing x, then selecting a link to a pdf, and accepting the
> proposed default (in my case evince) everything is fine - the document
> is opened.
> 
> But when I do the same thing with a link to a html website and the
> shellcommand wget, it seems that nothing happens - no error message, but
> no downloaded html file in ~/ either (wget works on the bash prompt). 

It should download to whatever your cwd is, but I recommend running the
command in a terminal so that you can see its output.

> 
> When I use X I'm queried for an url, but I'm not really sure what the
> semantics of this command are. Should the url be a shellscript? 
> 
> I tried several things, but always got error messages. 
> 

It is prompting for an url to run the command on.  To have it prompt for a
link instead, use the sequence 'n X'.

> BTW:
> Is there something like the Emacs 'Messages' buffer in Conkeror, where
> one can look up the messages that popped up in the minibuffer?
> 

No, not yet.

-- 
John Foerch
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