Add a hint mode for selecting scrollable elements.

Update issue 151
This should do what you want.

common/content/buffer.js

@@ -519,10 +519,22 @@ const Buffer = Module("buffer", {
         }
         else {
             elem.focus();
-            if (elem instanceof Window && elem.getSelection() && !elem.getSelection().rangeCount)
-                elem.getSelection().addRange(RangeFind.endpoint(
-                    RangeFind.nodeRange(elem.document.body || elem.document.documentElement),
-                    true));
+            if (elem instanceof Window) {
+                let sel = elem.getSelection();
+                if (sel && !sel.rangeCount)
+                    sel.addRange(RangeFind.endpoint(
+                        RangeFind.nodeRange(elem.document.body || elem.document.documentElement),
+                        true));
+            }
+            else {
+                let range = RangeFind.nodeRange(elem);
+                let sel = (elem.ownerDocument || elem).defaultView.getSelection();
+                if (!sel.rangeCount || !RangeFind.intersects(range, sel.getRangeAt(0))) {
+                    range.collapse(true);
+                    sel.removeAllRanges();
+                    sel.addRange(range);
+                }
+            }
 
             // for imagemap
             if (elem instanceof HTMLAreaElement) {
@@ -1109,9 +1121,13 @@ const Buffer = Module("buffer", {
             return elem;
         }
 
+        var elem = buffer.focusedFrame.document.activeElement;
+        if (elem == elem.ownerDocument.body)
+            elem = null;
+
         let sel = buffer.focusedFrame.getSelection();
-        if (sel && sel.rangeCount)
-            var elem = find(sel.getRangeAt(0).startContainer);
+        if (!elem && sel && sel.rangeCount)
+            elem = find(sel.getRangeAt(0).startContainer);
 
         if (!(elem instanceof Element)) {
             let doc = Buffer.findScrollableWindow().document;

common/content/finder.js

@@ -642,6 +642,9 @@ const RangeFind = Class("RangeFind", {
     contains: function (range, r)
         range.compareBoundaryPoints(range.START_TO_END, r) >= 0 &&
         range.compareBoundaryPoints(range.END_TO_START, r) <= 0,
+    intersects: function (range, r)
+        r.compareBoundaryPoints(range.START_TO_END, range) >= 0 &&
+        r.compareBoundaryPoints(range.END_TO_START, range) <= 0,
     endpoint: function (range, before) {
         range = range.cloneRange();
         range.collapse(before);

common/content/hints.js

@@ -48,11 +48,12 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
             options.get("extendedhinttags").getKey(this.name, this.tags()));
 
         this._hintModes = {};
-        this.addMode(";", "Focus hint",                           function (elem) buffer.focusElement(elem));
+        this.addMode(";", "Focus hint",                           buffer.closure.focusElement);
         this.addMode("?", "Show information for hint",            function (elem) buffer.showElementInfo(elem));
         this.addMode("s", "Save hint",                            function (elem) buffer.saveLink(elem, true));
         this.addMode("a", "Save hint with prompt",                function (elem) buffer.saveLink(elem, false));
         this.addMode("f", "Focus frame",                          function (elem) elem.ownerDocument.defaultView.focus(), function () ["body"]);
+        this.addMode("F", "Focus frame or pseudo-frame",          buffer.closure.focusElement, null, isScrollable);
         this.addMode("o", "Follow hint",                          function (elem) buffer.followLink(elem, dactyl.CURRENT_TAB));
         this.addMode("t", "Follow hint in a new tab",             function (elem) buffer.followLink(elem, dactyl.NEW_TAB));
         this.addMode("b", "Follow hint in a background tab",      function (elem) buffer.followLink(elem, dactyl.NEW_BACKGROUND_TAB));
@@ -68,6 +69,9 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
         this.addMode("c", "Open context menu",                    function (elem) buffer.openContextMenu(elem));
         this.addMode("i", "Show image",                           function (elem) dactyl.open(elem.src));
         this.addMode("I", "Show image in a new tab",              function (elem) dactyl.open(elem.src, dactyl.NEW_TAB));
+
+        function isScrollable(elem) isinstance(elem, [HTMLFrameElement, HTMLIFrameElement]) ||
+            Buffer.isScrollable(elem, 0, true) || Buffer.isScrollable(elem, 0, false);
     },
 
     /**
@@ -285,7 +289,10 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
 
         let baseNodeAbsolute = util.xmlToDom(<span highlight="Hint"/>, doc);
 
-        let res = util.evaluateXPath(this._hintMode.xpath, doc, null, true);
+        let mode = this._hintMode;
+        let res = util.evaluateXPath(mode.xpath, doc, null, true);
+        if (mode.filter)
+            res = let (orig = res) (e for (e in orig) if (mode.filter(e)));
 
         let fragment = util.xmlToDom(<div highlight="hints"/>, doc);
         let start = this._pageHints.length;
@@ -1078,7 +1085,7 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
         return -1;
     },
 
-    Mode: Struct("name", "prompt", "action", "tags")
+    Mode: Struct("name", "prompt", "action", "tags", "filter")
 }, {
     mappings: function () {
         var myModes = config.browserModes;
@@ -1105,13 +1112,13 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
             util.makeXPath(["input[not(@type='hidden')]", "a", "area", "iframe", "textarea", "button", "select",
                             "*[@onclick or @onmouseover or @onmousedown or @onmouseup or @oncommand or @tabindex or @role='link' or @role='button']"]);
 
+        function xpath(arg) Option.quote(util.makeXPath(arg));
         options.add(["extendedhinttags", "eht"],
             "XPath string of hintable elements activated by ';'",
-            "regexpmap", "[iI]:" + Option.quote(util.makeXPath(["img"])) +
-                       ",[OTivVWy]:" + Option.quote(util.makeXPath(
-                            ["{a,area}[@href]", "{img,iframe}[@src]"])) +
-                       ",[S]:" + Option.quote(util.makeXPath(
-                            ["input[not(@type='hidden')]", "textarea", "button", "select"])),
+            "regexpmap", "[iI]:" + xpath(["img"]) +
+                       ",[OTivVWy]:" + xpath(["{a,area}[@href]", "{img,iframe}[@src]"]) +
+                       ",[F]:" + xpath(["div", "span", "p", "body", "html"]) +
+                       ",[S]:" + xpath(["input[not(@type='hidden')]", "textarea", "button", "select"]),
             { validator: Option.validateXPath });
 
         options.add(["hinttags", "ht"],

common/locale/en-US/hints.xml

@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
             <li tag=";s"><em>s</em> to save its destination</li>
             <li tag=";a"><em>a</em> to save its destination (prompting for save location)</li>
             <li tag=";f"><em>f</em> to focus a frame</li>
+            <li tag=";f"><em>f</em> to focus a frame or pseudo-frame</li>
             <li tag=";o"><em>o</em> to open its location in the current tab</li>
             <li tag=";t"><em>t</em> to open its location in a new tab</li>
             <li tag=";b"><em>b</em> to open its location in a new background tab</li>

common/locale/en-US/options.xml

@@ -612,6 +612,11 @@
                      //area[@href]  | //xhtml:area[@href] |
                      //img[@src]    | //xhtml:img[@src]   |
                      //iframe[@src] | //xhtml:iframe[@src]',
+          [F]:'//div  | //xhtml:div |
+               //span | //xhtml:span |
+               //p    | //xhtml:p    |
+               //body | //xhtml:body |
+               //html | //xhtml:html'
           [S]:'//input[not(@type=''hidden'')]       |
                //xhtml:input[not(@type=''hidden'')] |
                //textarea  | //xhtml:textarea |