[Vimperator] Hints in vimperator 0.6

[Martin Stubenschrott]

Daniel Trstenjak wrote:

> Ah ok, I haven't been aware of this. I played a bit around with it,
> and yes, it's not that bad. Yes, sometimes it's faster to type a real
> word, sometimes it's not. I think what's more convient depends on the
> webside and on the preferences of the user. 

That's true, that's why we have a dual system. If i know i have 100
"more..." links, i use numbers right away. Actually hints are not even
fully finished by the way. I always planned to do the following:

1.) Prefer short links
2.) prefer links which have the hint-text at the start (or at least
start of a word boundary).

so having 3 links:

"Vimperator is great"
"Look at vim documentation"
"vim.org"

then writing "vim" should make "vim.org" the first one (=just press
enter when done writing vim), even if it's the 3rd link.
But well, i just haven't found the time for that, and probably will
spend the time rather on muttator improvements first.

I think with a better heuristics you could get "your" link within the
first few keypresses.

Also a reason for changing the system was, that with the new one, you
can just write: fvim, on large pages the old one required to do: f, wait
half a second or more, write vim. This waiting isn't vim like either,
but couldn't be changed in the old hints system.

> The biggest problem for me in the new hint system is the visual noise.
> I confess, I'm a bit special in this regard. I'm getting very fast
> oversaturated by visual and acoustic impulses. Therefore, no blinking
> cursors and no beeping speakers ;).

That's actually one of my most liked things. especially since link nr. 1
always changes from yellow to green. So i just type parts of the link,
and if that's not enough but the link is green, i just press enter.

> Perhaps I will have a look at the implementation, if it could be made
> configurable. But only if I can overcome my laziness :o.

Yeah, patches to make hints configurable would be hightly appreciated!