Request: switch to tab

[AeliusSaionji]

The only advantage firefox's native interface has over pentadactyl's command line bar is the ability to list open tabs as a search result, which, when selected, activate the existing tab instead of opening a new one. Let's kill that last advantage!

[osleg]

pressing b will open a list of buffers where you can start typing and have the list narrowed down by what you type....

[AeliusSaionji]

The functionality of which does not entirely overlap what I proposed. It's not programmed into Firefox's bar for nothing.

[azuwis]

Add this to ~/.pentadactylrc

js <<EOF
overlay.overlayObject(dactyl, {
    open: function open(urls, params, force) {
        if (typeof urls === "string") {
            let matches = urls.match(/^(\d+): /);
            if (matches) {
                tabs.switchTo(urls, true);
                return;
            }
        }
        open.superapply(this, arguments);
    }
});
completion.addUrlCompleter("buffer", "Open Tabs", completion.buffer);
options["complete"].splice(0, 0, "buffer");
EOF

[AeliusSaionji]

Perfect, thanks!

[AeliusSaionji]

So how do we proceed: close the request and hope future pentadactyl changes don't break this? Or, keep it open until this feature is merged into pentadactyl itself, where it has some chance of being fixed as pentadactyl grows?

[l29ah]

Bump! Vimperator already does this.

[l29ah]

The snippet doesn't seem to work in palemoon at least.