Permanent marks and global marks

fanglingsu / vimb

Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.

https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/

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Permanent marks and global marks #598

Closed AdrienLemaire closed 1 year ago

AdrienLemaire commented 4 years ago

Related: #355

Hi and thanks for making this cute browser. Just found it yesterday, and looking forward to becoming proficient with it.

One thing that I'm missing from Vimium are better marks:

using backtick ` as well as single quote ' to jump to a mark
lowercase letters register local marks; uppercase letters register global marks
marks are remembered permanently (either repeat mX to toggle mark or :delm ?)

Is that not implemented in vimb because you consider bookmarks to be enough?

Example: Access vimb with mark/tag V:

mV then 'V
:bma V then :open !V

Note that marks not only save the url but also the location in the page, which can be very handy when you want to jump to a specific paragraph in a very long webpage. Since vimb clears local tags after leaving the page, it can be tedious to find back the right location in a page if some search pattern to get there is repeated multiple times in that page.

fanglingsu commented 4 years ago

@AdrienLemaire This would be a nice feature. I do not like the way the marks are processed now because they do not always address the right location on the page. I'm not sure if it's possible to address the right location in the page in time where so many pages implement sort of endless scrolling and AJAX updated content. If you scroll to the same distance from top tomorrow, you would possibly end up somewhere else.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

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aksr commented 4 years ago

"stale bot" should be removed completely, it close, by now, many relevant bugs reports/features requests.

iamleot commented 4 years ago

aksr writes:

"stale bot" should be removed completely, it close, by now, many relevant bugs reports/features requests.

Yes, I don't think it's nice to automatically close issues.

fanglingsu commented 4 years ago

@iamleot I've removed the closing of stale issues with 5840a021f56f62edb031277dd6677a70e8debb6c.

iamleot commented 4 years ago

Thank you very much @fanglingsu!

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had activity within the last 60 days.