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Re: URLs that cannot be loaded

by John J. Foerch :: Rate this Message:

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Silvio Levy <levy@...> writes:

> Dear Conkeror developers
>
> When I mistype my destination - for instance if I want to google John
> and mistakenly type
>
> C-x C-f "John J Foerch
>
> instead of the intended
>
> C-x C-f gg "John J Foerch
>
> I get an Alert in a separate window and I'm then redirected to
> about:blank.  The string that I typed is apparently lost.  Would it be
> possible to have that string preserved somehow, to it can be edited?
> (Perhaps instead of a new about;blank tab, which is useless, the new
> tab could have as its "URL" the string that I typed, ready to be
> edited by find-alternate-url.
>
> Or perhaps there is some other way already?


A mis-typed url is not lost at all.  It will be stored in the minibuffer
history, which you can access by running the command again and hitting
M-p.

--
John Foerch

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