Re: [Vimprobable-users] two ideas to improve the quickmarks

[Marcos C. <vim...@pr...>]

En/Je/On 2013-04-25 11:27, Hannes Schüller escribió / skribis / wrote :

> > It would be nice to use any (ASCII?) letter as quickmark 
> 
> I fear you're underestimating the necessary changes for this; the
> current quickmark is not that flexible. Check out keymap.h

I had searched main.c for the quickmarks functions, just to get a little
idea how the thing works, but of course you're right, I see it's not so
simple.

Anyway, keep the idea for the future; alphanumeric quickmarks would be
more ergonomic.

> The whole thing about other parameters, I'm not sure what we'd need
> them for. Could you sketch some basic scenarios when they would prove
> useful?

I've never needed more than one parameter with Elinks' shortcuts, but I
think the feature is useful in certain cases. Examples:

	shortcut arlbn http://areallylongblogname.com/%0/%1/

Then you can access any year and month of the blog archives:

	:open arlbn 2013 07
	:open arlbn 2009 01

Or say a multilingual dictionary, where the searched language is a
subdomain or a directory. Then you can use two parameters as well: the
language and the term:

	shortcut adic http://%0.anydictionary.com/?term=%1
	
	:open adic en englisword
	:open adic eo esperantoword

Or say a library with several sections:

	shortcut lib http://mylibrary.com/?section=%0&subsection?=%1&lang=%2
	:open lib history europe french

But probably in most cases one single parameter can be used instead
without drawback:

	shortcut arlbn http://areallylongblogname.com/%0/
	:open arlbn 2013/07
	:open arlbn 2009/01

	shortcut adicen http://en.anydictionary.com/?term=%0
	shortcut adiceo http://eo.anydictionary.com/?term=%0
	:open adicen englisword
	:open adiceo esperantoword

(I have not used %s as first parameter in the examples because %0..%9
seems a better option.)

I think one optional parameter is enough in most cases; and it's easier
to implement.  More parameters could be implemented later, if they are
found useful enough.

Marcos

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