[Vimperator] Ideas and itches

[Doug Kearns]

On 8/3/07, Oliver <embry00s at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Yes, I know about ^PgUp/Down. I didn't know about b, number, enter, but this
> doesn't matter. What I want is to be able to choose a new tab without
> removing my hands from the home row. As this is something I do so often, I
> feel it's the vim way to have it accessible from home-row.

You've obviously never used tabs in Vim. ;-)

> One can of course make b do the labels-over-tabs thing, or show a preview
> window, and this is ok with me since I can bind s or d to do the same as b.
> What I probably can't do without modifying source (ugh, I don't know JS)
> would be to make the tabs use home-row letters instead of numbers. Numbers
> might be intuitive, but they sure as hell aren't the modal-vim-way.

I think we'd get you most of the way there if someone finished the
implementation of :buffer so it worked with a partial title string.
Would that help?

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Doug