[Vimperator] request statusbar / q regex / possible bug: 'all extensions incompatible'

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:14:42AM +0200, Peter Jakobi wrote:
> 1)  vi is about text; so mapping the dom representation of the page to
> a plaintext view (with location information) should  be  possible

It isn't really that easy, actually impossible, because even if you
managed to get this text representation with location information it
would be nearly impossible to then get back from the text representation
to the DOM, which you need for highliting the text. Regexp would really
be fine in vimperator, but I think we'll have to wait for firefox to
support it (there is a feature request for it AFAIK).

> 2)  regex  do exist in javascript (study() doesn't?); or possibly with
> object code in probably more powerful form as  the  pcre  library  for
> various  OSes.   Javascript  can be invoked as vimperor is javascript,
> and as an extension, shouldn't vimperor also have access to  the  text
> content of dom objects? 

Of course javascript has regexp support, but for text, not for a complex
web page.

> 3) even if we leave the dom-to-text idea alone, there's an interesting
> feature  that  would  nicely  match  vi:  large  text input fields and
> editing them in vim style (that means enter a text in  input  mode  in
> the  field,  then  press  escape  and  use normal vi movements to move
> around in the text you entered in the field, yank a few lines to  move
> them  around,  reformat  a paragraph and use some visual block moves),
> maybe even with vim-style syntax markup.
> 
> Consider  bloggers  and  their  text input or bugzilla and writing bug
> reports.

I know how useful this will be, and its on the TODO, a slightly outdated
version is here:
http://vimperator.mozdev.org/TODO.html


--
Martin

PS: Is there a way to turn off the justified text in your mail editor?
I think it's sometimes very hard to read the text in justified but still
monospace text.