Vimperator: Follow link with number in the text

Question

I use Vimperator, but one thing I struggle with is being able to efficiently select and navigate a link that has (or is) just a number. This happens quite a lot in various generated web pages use where the links are numerical or are dates.

Using just f to enter hints mode doesn't work, as typing a number will naturally send you to that hint.

Answer 1

I’m not very familiar with Vimperator, but in its fork and further development – Pentadactyl, you can use backslash to make following digits be treated as link inner text, not number. I. e. use f\21 to narrow the search to the links with text starting from / contains¹ 21.

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^{¹ Depending on your preferences, 'hintmatching' option to be precise.}