Extension of focus element specification for hint inputs

[tkna91]

I am using DeepL and often want to focus on the right input field to copy text for back translation for checking.

Can you make something like the following command?

• hint inputs -1
• hint inputs 2
• hint inputs 4
• hint inputs --last

Or is there some sort of alternative?

[The-Compiler]

In this particular case, why not just use the "swap" button in the middle instead?

In a more general sense, we have :click-element, recently also extended by CSS selectors (#6609), to click specific elements. I guess we could extend hints in the way you propose, but I wonder if it wouldn't be a bit too flaky, as the position of hints can change a lot depending on what exactly is on the screen.

[The-Compiler]

Taking the freedom to hide some comments above as off-topic, since they are indeed not really relevant to what you originally proposed.

I will need to think about it a bit. I wonder how stable the order of the hints really is, and whether the order really is guaranteed to be the same order the elements appear on the page.

If the order really makes sense, I think this could be an useful addition. In the future, maybe even combined with ranges (see e.g. #6119) so that you could easily select multiple hints, similar to what I've proposed in #571. But then I guess there should be a way to show the "index" of a hint visually as well.

[tkna91]

Certainly, the order of up, down, left, right, and right that user judge from the appearance may be different from the order in the source, etc. If the order is the same as the order in which the hints are displayed, then perhaps such an explanation should be included in the help, etc.