philc / philc/vimium

Same link mutiple times on page gets different link hints

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Description

Firefox version 52.4.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Vimium 1.61.1

On a page where the same link shows up multiple times, e.g. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__ has plenty of identical links to eq, each links still gets a different link hint. It would be much nicer to give them all the same link hint so that it would be obvious that the various links all go to the same page. It also keeps the number of required link hints down, reducing the needs for longer character sequences.

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Reproduce the issue in Firefox using the Python datamodel page linked in the report, then trace the link-hint behavior in the project. Done means identical destination links receive the same hint and the number of required hint characters is reduced.

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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