[Vimperator] Completion of URLs.

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Olivier Rossel wrote:
> Let's say I have many sites in my history:
> myVeryLongUrlToPointToMyVideos.com
> mywhatever1.com
> mywhatever2.com
> ...
> mywhatever10000.com
> mysite.com
> myserver.com
> 
> 
> I want to open myserver.com.
> I type "o my Tab".
> The command line is autocompleted to myVeryLongUrlToPointToMyVideos.com.
> To reach myserver.com, I can:
> either Tab for 10000 times,
> or backspace 10 times in order to modify my input to become "mys", and
> eliminate most of the false positives of the completion list.
> 
> My wish:
> when a URL is completed with Tab, the appended part to your input is
> "highlighted". If you want to precise the URL by typing additionnal
> characters, then the higlighted part is replaced by the new characters
> typed and the completion choice is relaunched based on that new input.
> 
> Does it sound useful?

Yes it does, and i thought about a similar system as well, but did not
implement it, as there are more important things.

So either i get a patch with a seperate 'wildmode', or it will sure have
to wait some months.

Martin