Support for vim-like splits?

[MrKalzu]

Hi!

Is there any plans for implementing Vim style splits (and buffers) ?

Thank you so much for reviving this wonderful browser!

[aidanholm]

Hey :)

I'm not sure what you mean by vim-style buffers, or how that concept is different from tabs. If you're referring to the ability to have multiple viewports showing the same web view, that's currently impossible, because GTK only supports a single widget parent.

Splits would be possible, but probably not trivial to implement. You would probably have to keep the notion of a "current" webview per window (w.view). Apart from that, it'd probably be mostly a matter of connecting to the build signal on the window module and adding some binds/modes for widget wrangling. There's a few other assumptions in the Lua code that'd probably need changes.

This isn't something I'd be likely to work on myself, but I'd be happy to merge a self-contained module that implements this (like how tab_favicons.lua is self-contained), and/or any sensible refactorings that facilitate this.

You're welcome, glad you're enjoying it!