[Vimperator] Hint text readability (was:support for: '.' and 'n')

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:41:36AM +0300, Виктор Кожухаров wrote:
> В вт, 2007-04-17 в 15:36 -0500, Mark Frost написа:
> > > There is the 'hintstyle' option, where you can at least easily change
> > > colors, I am not satisfied with the font myself. But here it doesn't use
> > > a serif font, I think it inherits the firefox settings for monospaced
> > > fonts.
> > I played some more with settings and the hints do inherit the
> > monospaced settings.  I made a one-line change to my local copy to add
> > a non-breaking space at the end of the hint text which has increased
> > readability dramatically.
> > hints.js:237 hintElem.innerHTML = hintText + "&nbsp";
> > 
> > It's cheap and effective, at least for me.
> > 
> that's the poor man's solution. the preferred solution would be to
> change the default hintstyle to have "padding: 0px 1px" instead of
> "padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px".

Ahhhh, focusedhinstyle alswasy had 0px 1px 0px 1px but hinstyle had 0px
0px 0px 0px, changed in CVS, but of course old configs are not updated,
and :set hintstyle& support is not yet done.