Faster way to insert annotations

[Groz17]

Firstly, many thanks for the beautiful program!

I was wondering if I could use add_freetext_bookmark (and possibly other annotations commands) without selecting a box before, to speed up the annotation process. I'm hoping for the introduction of six new mappings, for {top,middle,bottom}{left,right} margins of the pdf document. The mappings, starting from the top-left margin and going clockwise, would be vim-inspired:

• it
• at
• aa
• ab
• ib
• ii

They are similar in nature to the zt, zz and zb mappings. Not sure about the remaining top-center and bottom-center margins' mappings, maybe something like im and am, if you think they're even useful.

[ahrm]

We do have a keyboard_point_selection config. If enabled, we use the keyboard to select points.

[Groz17]

Thanks, now I can just use my keyboard. Is it possible to avoid selecting the points interactively? Let's say I usually take annotations on the left margin in the middle. Being able to automatically write there would be very comfortable. Maybe a hacky solutions could be using something like feedkeys in vim and passing it a string like mamg to mean middle start margin/middle end margin? This however would depend on the zoom level, which is not ideal.

[ahrm]

Added ability to specify window-space coordinates in keybindings in 66880e1.
Now you can do something like this:

add_freetext_bookmark('W 0 0 0.5 0.5') <keybind>

The W means that this is a window-space coordinate (normally we treat them as absolute positions in the document). The four numbers that follow (separated by space) are the coordinates of the bottom left and top right of the rectangle (values are between -1 and 1).

[Groz17]

Well, that's exactly what I wanted, thanks 😄

Just one more request if you don't mind: If it's possible, I would like to reference the margins in the window-space coordinates.

For example, something like

add_freetext_bookmark('W M-1 M-1 M1 M1')

would select the current pdf page excluding the margins.

That's just something extra, this is already usable ;)