[Vimperator] Feedback from Bart

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:55:33PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> Here is my feedback and feature requests:
> 
> - it's awesome!
> 
> - search is a bit messy right now, particularly I would expect this to work:
>     /something<cr>     <- search for first something, <cr> will make the
>                           search box go away
>     n                  <- find the next something
>     N                  <- find the previous something
>     <cr>               <- if search highlighted an URL, it should follow it
> 
> - search should (eventually) support regex
> 
> - I think the right way to do search might be to forgo the firefox built
>   in search boxes and use the same mechanism you use for the : command
>   line ... but what do I know :)

All these things are planned. But I looked at conkeror's own search
mechanismn and it doesn't work everywhere well, so it will be quite
difficult unfortunatly :(

> - I have noticed that I can access firefox shortcuts (like ctrl-f and
>   ctrl-p) when I am in the quick search mode activated by /

Yeah, I know that, but as (finally) this box will go away anyway, I
don't really care for this now.

> - :o <tab> completion is already great, but could we make the list
>   sorted by most recently accessed?  (if possible)

Good idea, but I don't know how I can easily see the modification date
of a bookmark/history in the javascript code. I put it on the TODO list
though.

> - can we make ctrl-w not close the tab?  Who hasn't cursed when they
>   pushed ctrl-w to erase a word in a web-form?

Yeah, that annoys me as well. I can bind ctrl-w to "nothing" when you
are not in a form field. If you are in it, it won't help though, as the
form-field keybindings need to be written from scratch (planned at some
point).

> And this may be off the wall...  is it possible to make ctrl-u and ctrl-d
> scroll like in vim?  I find ctrl-f and ctrl-b awkward.  How do people feel
> about this?

I thought about it, and although I never use them in vim, I would like
to have them. Let's see if a half-page scroll is easily to implement, if
not I will at least make them move like ctrl-f/b (a full page).

--
Martin