[Vimperator] Ideas and itches

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:24:13PM +0200, Oliver wrote:
> First off, thanks to the people in the mailinglist who helped me with make
> installing from CVS - it worked nicely in cygwin. Bookmark keywords now work
> lovely.

Great :)

> Second, I don't have hint-a-hint installed and never have as many as 30 tabs
> open. If you want to, I can do some testing around with it anyways.

Hmm, not necessary, as...

> Now, to the meat of this mail:
> 1) gt and gT are slow, and :b is horrible to use. Would it be possible to
> have a function very similar to the f-command, where you instead got labels
> on your tabs? The tab farthest to the left would be A, then S, D, etc, or
> whichever system you are already using for links in web-pages. They keys s
> and d would be ideal for this purpose.

Sounds like a great idea, instead of fixed numbers, i'll rather use the
first character of the title when possible (or the 2nd, etc.), the hint
could be overlayed over the icon.
I am not going to code this solution yet, as we want to get 0.5 out of
the door, and it's still not high on my priority, but this sounds like a
real useful addition to fast buffer switching. I just don't know if it
is easy (doable) to overaly hints over the tab bar.

> 2) We can't see where links point to unless we hoover over them. This can be
> solved by showing this location in the vimperator statusbar when the url has
> been chosen with the ; quick-hint command, but before any action has been
> taken.

I don't see your suggestion here, it works like that (at least with
:set ssli=1)

> 3) Not all pages render quick-hints correctly, even though I've seen talk in
> the mailinglist archives about it. Examples include programming.reddit.comand
> helgon.net. A reddit reader I met on IRC said that hint-a-hint functions, so
> maybe taking a look at their source for hinting would also be a good idea?

Works for me, make sure you reset hintstyle, hinttags and
extendedhinttags settings  with :set hintstyle& etc.
But yeah, hints are not always fully reliable, post other websites, i
think there is even a bug report on vimperator.mozdev.org, where you can
add urls.

> 4) When searching with the / command, the enter key should have the same
> effect as the escape key (as per vim).

Well, planned, but not as easy, so it'll take a little.

> 5) We need a command for bringing up the Organize Bookmarks window. :org,
> :ob or :organizebookmarks would be excellent.

Currently not planned, i could however change :bookmarks! to bring up
this window, instead of the way it works now.
This leads me to the next question (mainly targeted at Doug), would it
be better to show :bookmarks <filter> in our new multiline widget? I
think so, and then maybe add a :pbookmarks command to show them in the
preview window.

> 6) List-boxes and drop-down boxes need to be navigatable using j and k.
> Perhaps going for overkill and even adding J and K (or gg/G) for Home/End,
> and /-searching inside them? Perhaps not.

/-searching for them is not planned, other keys are still to be
discussed, but at some time, they'll come.

> I don't really know where to put these in TODO, or if I would be allowed to
> do so (or how to operate CVS), so I'll leave this to anybody who feels
> compelled.

I added the main idea of using hints for the tabbar to the wiki, all
others are not really important enough, but it'll keep them in mind.

regards,

Martin