[Vimprobable-users] A bunch of issues and questions

[Karryanna <ka...@ka...>]

Hello everyone,

I feel terribly lame writing this e-mail so first of all, I am sorry if
I am doing anything about it wrong.

To make it worse, I've collected quite a lot of issues :) Even though
I have hunted some of them down to be my mistakes or misunderstandings,
a lot of them remained to be reported.


• First of all, hinting sometimes doesn't work for me.
The only case I can report is search field at PHP website,
http://www.php.net
If I hit `f`, I get a number for that field, however following it doesn't
result in anything (visible).
No matter what I think about PHP and no matter in this particular case
I could use accesskey, I consider this a bug.

The other case I've noted down is webpage through which I sometimes submit
my homeworks, where hint for file selection shows but following it doesn't
really bring up the selection dialog. However, this site is login protected.
Anyway, I'd like to note that if I select next form field, tab back and
press enter, everything works as expected.

Is there any explanation to this, and more importantly, some kind of a fix?


• Another issue, downloaded files are sometimes saved under name `url`.
I suspect this happens with any Google search, and this surely happened
to me at some other websites.
Unfortunately, I haven't noted down any of those other sites and Google
attempts of personalised searches could make reproducing difficult, but
googling "kartografie" lists link to
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://gis.zcu.cz/studium/tka/Slides/uvod_do_kartografie.pdf
for me but following the link gets the file saved as `url`.


• To stay with downloading, how does renaming of downloaded files work?
I noticed that tar files get numbered. I mean, if `archive.tar` exists,
another file of that name gets saved as `archive.tar.1`, another as
`archive.tar.2` and so on. However, if for example `photo.jpg` exists,
and I try to download another file of that name, the old one is moved
to `photo.jpg~` and the new one gets saved under its name. Downloading
any other `photo.jpg` would get the very first file lost definitely.
Especially in combination with saving files as `url`, that's not nice.
So, what's the policy? And is it in any way configurable?


• Perhaps not so important issue, is it possible that launching Vim
to edit form fields is not documented?
I'd neved used Vimperator before I discovered Vimprobable so it just
didn't come to my mind that Vim could possibly be used. After I onced
launched it incidentally, it took me some time searching how it is
done and now I consider it one of greatest features which surely
should be documented.


• Searching terms with diacritics sometimes breaks the diacritics
Sometimes I try to search for a term including diacritics but when
I get results, it seems that the diacritics had been broken somewhere.
It should be reproducable for example here:
https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?KEY=Az1
Say you wish to search for person whose family name is "Burešová".
After searching, I see "Burešová" in the field.
Another example is my highschool's site, http://www.gym-cl.cz
There's search field in the upper right corner, I used it for example
to search for "suplování" but after the search, it again seems to be
broken.
However, on many sites searching with diacritis works all right.

Do you have any ideas about what this could be caused by?


• Javascript sometimes doesn't work? I am not really sure about the point
of this issue.
I get it when searching for some transport connection. If you go to
http://jizdnirady.idnes.cz/autobusy/spojeni/
and fill for example "Odkud" as "Praha" and "Kam" as "Liberec" (not the
one I would really search but one that anyone should be able to type :) )
and then press "Hledat", you should be presented with three bus connections.
Above and below, there should be also arrows labeled as "Předchozí" and
"Následující". Clicking them in other browsers results in showing three
more connections, going before/after those presented. However, selecting
them in Vimprobable does nothing (no matter whether I use hinting,
accesskeys or mouse).
Is this rather Vimprobable bug, JavaScript bug or some weird bug at
this specific site? And again, could you think of any workaround?


• Is it possible to use different encoding to display page/file?
I got to think about that after trying to view
http://www.karryanna.cz/misc/dopis_nejen_jeziskovi.draft
using some browsers. As for this file, it turned out to be a little bit
more sophisticated problem, but anyway, could I force Vimprobable to
display a file using some specific encoding, say using UTF-8?


• Is it possible to see link's location before following it?
I sometimes wish to know where a link leads before I really follow it.
I can get to know it by hovering over the link with my mouse but I wish
to do it using keyboard.
I currently use `;y` to achieve this but it's not exactly the same.
Is there something else?


• Is there any kind of private mode?
The thing I care about is history saving. I sometimes browse websites
whose addresses I don't like to show up in tab completion during, say,
practical session at university.
I could rename the history file and after I am done, rename it back
but I don't think this would be a nice solution. However, it surely is
one I can live with.


• Is it possible to download current page/file?
Say I would have
http://www.karryanna.cz/misc/dopis_nejen_jeziskovi.draft
mentioned above opened in Vimprobable. Can I get it to save that file?
Like, without going to parent directory and using `;s` (or making
direct link from special page).


• Is there any kind of hinting for frames?
I know that frames are evil and stuff but anyway, for example
http://srazy.hocz.org/index2.html
is a page informing about meetings of a community I belonged in and it's
made using frames. Is there a way to select the right frame so that for
example j/k movement takes effect? (It's not needed at real index but it
would come in handy after selecting some menu entry.)


• Sometimes I can't leave insert mode
I am not sure whether I should report this since I can't reproduce it.
However, sometimes I get stuck in insert mode, it seems that pressing
escape leads to leaving it and activating it again immediately. The only
way to leave the mode is to tab outside of the form and use escape there.

Has anyone else encountered this?



Well, that's finally all for now.
I'll be greatful for any suggestions and help (as well as for patience
with me).

Karry