philc / philc/vimium

Feature Request: Deterministic Link Hint Mode

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Description

The Feature
Make the letters generated for each link in link hint mode the same each time. This means a link will have the same letters each time entering link hint mode.

Benefits
Navigating common pages will become intuitive and far quicker. Blindfold navigation will be possible with out the need of reading the link letters do to memorization developed from repetition.

Im guessing this can be done by creating a relationship between the url string of the link and the generated text. Cant be to difficult?... :D

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Research direction

Start by locating the link hint mode implementation and the code that generates letters for each link; the issue does not name files or tests. Determine how a URL-to-hint relationship should behave, then verify that repeatedly entering hint mode assigns the same letters to the same links.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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