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

Tue Dec 11 11:55:40 PST 2007

On 2007-12-11T00:13:24+0100, Martin Stubenschrott wrote:
> > 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.

I create a file with:

<html>
	x
	<a href="x">x</a>
</html>

then search for x.  \lx says "E486:Pattern not found: \lx". "\ux" finds 
both.  This is with iceweasel 2.0.0.10-0etch1 which is what debian calls 
firefox.

> > 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.

Great.  I am using 0.5.2.

> > 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.

j/k/g/B works, sweet.  Suggest adding a hint in the help pages what the 
valid commands are as the prompt just says "Press ENTER or type command 
to continue".

ctrl-f opens up search, and ctrl-b bookmark here.

> > 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.

What about this:

:bmarks
;

and then select the hint and use d to delete it.  Now that you told me 
How to scroll the output that would be easier than typing in the whole 
url.

> > 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.

:bmarks takes the argument [filter]
filter is one optional argument
filter is either an url or title

:delm takes the argument {marks}
marks is one or more required arugments
marks is an url

:bmarks! gives a different interface

:delm! will delete all bookmarks in the future

So for example I may do:

:bmarks test

and get 20 results, but:

:delbm test

probably deletes nothing as the result was based on title match.  I may 
run :delbm! thinking that I get an interactive gui like :bmarks! but 
would (in the future) delete all my bookmarks.

> > 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.

The extension Bookmark Tags provides the ability to tag your bookmarks, 
so a bookmark for example.com could be tagged both "example" and "test".  
This is great when you have a lot of bookmarks as you are no longer 
forced to find that one right folder to put things in.  In any case the 
extension provides its own bookmark properties window, but the hot key 
ctrl-shit-b does not work (even with I).  So wondering if it would 
possible for me as a user to define a :bmarks2 command to bring up this  
other properties window.

What I do now is:

ctrl-b 
select Bookmark tags from th eall-in-one sidebar list box
select input box
type or select tags

Bookmark Tags uses folders to encode the tags.  If :bmarks had an option 
to only display stuff that is within a given folder tree that would be 
even better.  Say your bookmarks look like this:

A/1
A/B/2
B/3

then it means that 1 is tagged with A, and 2 is tagged with both A and 
B, and 3 only with B.  If :bmarks had a option to query by parent folder 
name then you could do the tag queries nicely with:

:bmarks -fA => 1 2
:bmarks -fA -fB (or -fA,B) => 2 

Similar to what the help page suggests for -T but I am guessing tag here 
refers to keywords opposed to folders.

> 
> > 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.

My pleasure.  Looking forward to ff3 and vimperator 0.6

/Allan