Axel Beckert <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Nils,
>
> Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
>> on StackExchange sites I cannot navigate using hotkeys.
>
> You can. You just have to prefix them with Ctrl-Z. (I know, because I
> ran into the very same case, too. :-)
>
> Back then I asked on IRC and got an answer quite quickly. But it's
> also documented on e.g.
> http://conkeror.org/PageModes?highlight=%28C-z%29
>
> I though must admit that neither
> chrome://conkeror-help/content/help.html nor
> chrome://conkeror-help/content/tutorial.html mention this keybinding.

Even if it would have been mentioned this overrides user preferences
without user consent and violates user expectations rather gravely.

> So from my point of view it's a pure documentation issue. (It's a
> feature, not a bug! ;-)

I think it is worse: It does something unexpected without any indication
why or how. I think that stackexchange-mode should not be on by default
or it should be the other way around – that keys for stackexchange-mode
should be reachable by some prefix, e.g. C-z.

-- 
Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann
<http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

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