new vimperator.buffer.element function to quickly retrieve a single element with XPath attributes

content/buffers.js

@@ -283,6 +283,13 @@ vimperator.Buffer = function () //{{{
             return window.content.document.title;
         },
 
+        // quick function to get elements inside the document reliably
+        // argument "args" is something like: @id='myid' or @type='text' (don't forget the quoted around myid)
+        element: function (args, index)
+        {
+            return vimperator.buffer.evaluateXPath("//*[" + (args || "") + "]").snapshotItem(index || 0)
+        },
+
         // returns an XPathResult object
         evaluateXPath: function (expression, doc, elem, asIterator)
         {

content/events.js

@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ vimperator.Events = function () //{{{
         for (var now = then; now - then < ms; now = new Date().getTime())
         {
             mainThread.processNextEvent(true);
+            if ((now -then) % 1000 < 10)
                 dump("waited: " + (now - then) + " ms\n");
 
             if (vimperator.buffer.loaded > 0)

content/vimperator.js

@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ const vimperator = (function () //{{{
             vimperator.completion    = vimperator.Completion();
             vimperator.log("All modules loaded", 3);
 
+            // we define some shortcuts to functions which are used often
             vimperator.echo    = function (str, flags) { vimperator.commandline.echo(str, vimperator.commandline.HL_NORMAL, flags); };
             vimperator.echoerr = function (str, flags) { vimperator.commandline.echo(str, vimperator.commandline.HL_ERRORMSG, flags); };