[Vimperator] suggestions for improvement

Martin Stubenschrott stubenschrott at gmx.net
Sat Sep 8 07:58:45 PDT 2007


On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:50:50PM +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> - the ability to set (and jump to) marks is great - but how can we
> forget our '' (that's 2 single quotes) shortcut/"floating mark"?

Yeah, i didnt do the marks implementation, but actually '' is the only
way i use marks in vim usually. Maybe/hopefully in future.

> - vim allows for a ":b2" instead of having to put a space in between
> 'b' and '2'. Could we have that as well in vimperator?

Unfortunatly not, while it is definitly useful, our command parser
requires a space after a command, you can however use b2<enter> (without
the :)

> - is there any way to get at the location bar conveniently (assuming
> 'go-=T' as per standard)? Sure, I can do a 'T', but what if I want to
> copy, and paste the current url somewhere? I used to be able to do it
> conveniently with <C-L>, then <C-c>. 'T', then move mouse, then
> right-click, 'Copy' is not obviously mouseless.

Use 'y' to copy the url location, much faster. in vimperator 0.5.2
you'll be again able to just select the url with the mouse in the
statusline.

> - right now with 'go-=s', there is no convenient way to get at the
> security information of a web page. Could we implement some sort of
> way to do this with vimperator?

Would be great of course, at some time we'll sure have it, but it's
definitly very low on my priority list, unless i get a patch.
This will probably be incorporated into a :pageinfo command which shows
all information of the firefox page info (and maybe more) in a multiline
output at the bottom.

--
Martin


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