bug#35211: 26.1; Feature request: Saka Key like interface to eww

bug#35211: 26.1; Feature request: Saka Key like interface to eww

[Dov Grobgeld]

I'm a fan of the Mozilla Firefox extension saka-key
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saka-key/) which creates
a way of interacting with the browser through the keyboard. The key sequence
F F by default creates an overlay that shows one or two characters
above each link of the displayed page. Pressing the displayed
characters then jump to the link. This makes it very fast to jump to
links anywhere on the page. By comparison in eww it is necessary to
navigate with the cursor to the link and then press Enter, which is much slower.
I therefore suggest that an interface similar to Saka Key be provided in eww.

bug#35211: 26.1; Feature request: Saka Key like interface to eww

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm a fan of the Mozilla Firefox extension saka-key
> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saka-key/) which
> creates a way of interacting with the browser through the
> keyboard. The key sequence F F by default creates an overlay that
> shows one or two characters above each link of the displayed
> page. Pressing the displayed characters then jump to the link. This
> makes it very fast to jump to links anywhere on the page. By
> comparison in eww it is necessary to navigate with the cursor to the
> link and then press Enter, which is much slower.  I therefore suggest
> that an interface similar to Saka Key be provided in eww.

I like Saka Key in Firefox, but the reason that it's so useful there is
(in my opinion) that it makes Firefox more Emacs-like.  In Emacs there's
a plethora of functions for moving around in buffers (like C-s) and I
don't think the Saka Key paradigm fits that well with Emacs stuff...

I could see this being a part of one of the autocompletion DWIM modes
(like Company or Ivy or the like), though, for those who like that.  But
I don't really see it as part of core eww.

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