[Vimperator] 0.6 quickhints and caret mode feedback

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:22:30PM +0100, Thomas Svensen wrote:
>  1. Add leading zeroes to make the numbers unique. Now, if, e.g. there
> are
>     11 links, and I want hint no. 1, I have to type 1 + enter. Typing 01
>     would be simpler in my opinion. Alternatively, skip the short
> numbers,
>     and start with the first having all digits, i.e, 10 -> 20 in the
> case of
>     11 links.

There is a 'hinttimeout' option for it, :set hinttimeout=500, and then
press 1, it will be followed after half a second automatically, if you
don't write more chars.

>  2. "Throw away" superfluous keypresses, e.g. 0,5 seconds after
> completing a
>     quickhint entry. Why? I had an issue with two links, let's say "bar"
> and
>     "back". I typed "bar" quickly, not noting that "ba" would be
> sufficient.
>     The result was that the extra "r" caused a reload of the current
> page.

That is done exactly that way for exactly that reason :) And also
exactly 0.5 seconds (non changable for now unfortunatly). Maybe i should
change it to 1 second, hmm...

> I have also started using the "caret" mode, which is absolutely great!
> This
> used to be one of the cases where an awkward mouse usage was required.
> But I
> am missing the "y" for "yank" keypress when I am in visual mode.
> Wouldn't that be natural to add? Now, I have to do Ctrl-C, which isn't
> very "vim-ish" :-)

Sounds like a good idea.

> Sorry for complaining about this wonderful piece of software, but I hope
> you like some feedback anyway :-)

No problem, that's not complaining, rather "input" :)
It always depends, on HOW one issues his feature requests, and you did
it in a friendly way.

--
Martin