From 97bc4fa6a2f3d05b25f22268236b5fc627eae7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: user202729 <25191436+user202729@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:13:26 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment for explanation

---
 qutebrowser/browser/hints.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
index c4b5f51af..cfd6f7c4e 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
@@ -454,10 +454,13 @@ class HintManager(QObject):
         # case. Usually we do not need all of these digits for every link
         # single hint, so we can show shorter hints for a few of the links.
         needed = max(min_chars, utils.ceil_log(len(elems), len(chars)))
+
         # Short hints are the number of hints we can possibly show which are
         # (needed - 1) digits in length.
         if needed > min_chars and needed > 1:
             total_space = len(chars) ** needed
+            # For each 1 short link being added, len(chars) long links are
+            # removed, therefore the space removed is len(chars) - 1.
             short_count = (total_space - len(elems)) // (len(chars) - 1)
         else:
             short_count = 0