[Vimperator] Awesome extension, and lots of comments as a result

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:29:40PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> 1. The help page says / takes a pattern, but it seems to be plain text 
> instead of a regex.

Yes, plain text since we use Firefox' search mechanism, but it takes
some modifiers like \c or \C.

> 2. Is there a way to escape / so you can search for http://?  Tried 
> both ctrl-v and \.  Without regex it was just easier typing in the whole 
> thing, and it it was longer to mark it would be easier to use the mouse 
> to select it.

Hmm, i don't know why that doesn't work, it should, but it doesnt.

> 3. I tried to search for an anchored url with /\lsomething.com and 
> /something.com\l but neither worked.  Is that feature broken, or do I 
> misunderstand how it is supposed to work?  linksearch/lks works.

It should work, it might be that your version uses \u instead of \l but,
\l is the current way to search for links only.

> 4. The other thing that would be nice was if the search term would not 
> disappear when going to the next url.  So search for x on page1.html, 
> then go to page2.html and "n" should search search for x.

Does work here at least in 0.6pre.

> 5. guioptions: allow hiding of tab bar as :buffers does it better 
> anyways.  I tried the firefox forceHide preference but it did not work 
> or was reset by something.  The Hide Tab Bar and Tab Killer extensions 
> do not work either.  The former has a key combination to hide it a menu, 
> but doesn't just do it and the auto-hide 
> corrupts menu with short timeouts.  Tab Killer force multiple windows.

set stal=0 

> 6. Redraw is needed quite often, including F when just doing general 
> browsing.  Hints appears to be there, just at the wrong place relative
> to content.
> 
> 7. If there a lot of hints use 3 letters just like we switch from 1 to 2 
> now.

Hints are completely rewritten for 0.6pre.

> 8. Restart does not work.  Window closes, but firefox-bin process seems 
> to hang and not come back to life.  QuickRestart extension works for 
> me.

Hmm, usually works here.

> 9. bmarks [filter] does not seem real useful when you a lot of 
> bookmarks.  Hint the output?

Changed in 0.6pre.

> 10. If you have a lot of boomarks I cannot see the whole list with 
> :bmarks.  The top scrolls outside the screen and the ctrl-p does not 
> work at enter prompt.  Even :tab bmarks doesn't do the trick (including 
> with nomore).

You should be able to use j/k/ctrl-f/ctrl-b/g/G etc. in the prompt, at
least in 0.6pre.

> 10. It should be possible to remove bookmarks when looking at your 
> filtered output as well, otherwise I think your only option is to 
> remember the url, or copy it with the mouse from the :bmarks output 
> (assuming you do not want to this with :bmarks!).

Use :delbmarks, there just is no other way around.

> 11. In the help file :bmarks [filter] vs. :delm[arks] {marks}, and their 
> ! variants seems to be inconsistent.  If :bmarks list all filters should 
> :delm not delete them all?  It's ok if :undo works for bookmark 
> operations.  

I don't understand fully, please give an example.

> 12.  It would be neat if I could trivially get to the Bookmark Tags 
> version of the bookmark window in addition to the default one (i.e. a 
> customization 
> kind of deal).

I don't understand.

> 13. In hints mode ctrl-o opens a url instead of my new favorite back 
> key.

Works in 0.6pre with the new hints.

Thanks for the input, hope most things will go away automatically when
you switch to the Firefox3 based next 0.6 vimperator.

--
Martin