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[Vimprobable-users] Fwd: Link hinting

[niemand n. <nie...@gm...>]

Again, this was sent to the old list. Sorry!

-N

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From: niemand nobody <nie...@gm...>
Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM
Subject: Link hinting
To: Vim...@vi...


Hi,

Is there any particular reason why the link hinting uses numbers instead of
letters? Personally, I prefer Vimium's link hinting, which uses common
letters like "asdfghjkl" that my fingers are already resting on, as this is
a smidge more convenient than "123456780".

While on the matter of link hinting: I've noticed that hints for links that
extend into a new line will show up at the start of the line that the link
begins. This seems a bit unintuitive, and certainly a bit confusing when
there is also a link at the beginning of that first line. I've noticed that
other link hinting instead puts the hints of multi-line links simply at the
start of the link (e.g. the way Vimium does it). Is there any reason why we
wouldn't want to do it that way, too?

If there isn't, I just might be able to figure out the hinting code enough
to patch it myself!

Thanks,

niemand

Re: [Vimprobable-users] Fwd: Link hinting

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

Hi!

niemand nobody <nie...@gm...> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why the link hinting uses numbers
> instead of letters? Personally, I prefer Vimium's link hinting, which
> uses common letters like "asdfghjkl" that my fingers are already
> resting on, as this is a smidge more convenient than "123456780".

Yes, there is a very particular (good) reason. That being that there
are many people (me included) who don't just enter a hint's number, but
type part of the link text to activate it. A feature which these less
advanced hinting functions of other browsers don't seem to allow at all
(making them unusable).

Hannes

Re: [Vimprobable-users] Fwd: Link hinting

[niemand n. <nie...@gm...>]

> niemand nobody <nie...@gm...> wrote:
>> Is there any particular reason why the link hinting uses numbers
>> instead of letters?
>
> Yes, there is a very particular (good) reason. That being that there
> are many people (me included) who don't just enter a hint's number, but
> type part of the link text to activate it. A feature which these less
> advanced hinting functions of other browsers don't seem to allow at all
> (making them unusable).
>
> Hannes
>
>

I've played around with link hinting by typing part of the link text,
and I must admit that I like it a lot! My only regret is that I didn't
read through the man page before I'd made my post...

Thanks!

-N

Re: [Vimprobable-users] Fwd: Link hinting

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi!
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:22:42PM -0700, niemand nobody wrote:
> If there isn't, I just might be able to figure out the hinting code enough
> to patch it myself!

It could be hard to patch. I spent last weeks to revamp the hinting so that
the javascript should be more readable an easier to patch. But if you want to
change hintmarkers from numbers to chars, you have to adapt several methods in
the c layer to, because the c layer differ between chars that are given to the
createHints() function in the JavaScript or numbers that are delgatet to the
updateHints() function.
But I confirm with Hannes that chars aren't the right way to do hinting. For
me it would be confusing to read a link text 'Foo', aktive the hints and have
to write 'sa' to open it.

Daniel