[To clarify, I am using hints of near-home-row characters.]
Vimperator sometimes forces you to hit <CR> in order to complete hints. This is very flow-breaking, especially since the Return key is not actually near the home row with my other hint characters.
I noticed this usually happened when a hint is not unique, e.g. if f, fa are possible hints, then selecting f requires typing f<CR>.
Is there a way to avoid this, possibly by changing a setting or modifying the hint selection algorithm to avoid non-unique hints?
You can set
'hinttimeout'to some small number, like 500 (it's measured in milliseconds; default is 0, i.e. no timeout). This will make Vimperator follow a non-unique hint if you don't type for the specified amount of type.