Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web

Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by hyyypr on Thursday January 14, 2010 @07:35AM (#1052439)

Hey great work on your plugin! But I must say I'll stick with vimperator, and this would be for the love of just one feature: Hints.

Hints allow you to select a link, either by numbers assigned to each link in your current page view, or by typing the link's name.

Maybe I misunderstood the way gleeBox works, but from what I've tested, you can select all links (with ?a) but you then have to navigate to the correct one by repeatedly pressing TAB? That's a show stopper for me.

But like I said, kudos for the initiative.

On a related note there's a standalone browser with vimperator-like features currently under developpment although the available versions are more than usable: http://www.uzbl.org . When it gets stable, I'll definitely dump firefox/vimperator :)

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Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by ankit_ on Thursday January 14, 2010 @07:46AM (#1052452)

Thanks. The default behavior of gleeBox is to search for links when you enter any text.

So, you can simply enter a part of the text of the link you want to go to. If multiple links have the same text, you can TAB your way to the right link. You don't need to use ?a.

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Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by hyyypr on Thursday January 14, 2010 @07:49AM (#1052455)

I'm a real newb. :) Thanks for clarifying. It's mentionned in the user manual, but to be honnest I just read the big highlights about the commands not the text.. Sorry sir :). And again, great job.

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