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Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by Izkata »

friend_and_foe wrote: post #4

I'm not seeing a ":" command bar in any demos, is there one? I use Qutebrowser and it's fantastic, I even wrote some userscripts for it which are probably easier to build than web extensions.

IIRC Vimium was the one that was pure hotkeys, no commands. Waaay back when Vimperator died with Firefox Quantum, I tried a bunch of different addons that still worked and Vimium was probably the least powerful of them.

Currently I use Vim Vixen[0]. It's still nowhere near as feature-full as Vimperator was, but nothing can be nowadays. My only real complaint about it is how link hints don't let you complete with the link text like Vimperator could - it's the one thing that as far as I can tell, no replacement supports even though it's a whole lot better.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by tastysandwich »

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful.

I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it.

As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in focus. I believe you have to wait for the page to fully load before you can use it.

Most annoyingly, a lot of websites have custom keyboard shortcuts, so you have to blacklist them in the Vimium config. Eg Gmail, Miro. Then you need to remember you can't use Vimium on them.

None of this is their fault in any way, of course. But it does make Vimium a bit annoying to use for me anyway.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by et1337 »

prettyStandard wrote: post #3

Tried using this recently. Even though I use vim daily I haven't made good use of Vimium yet. In fact I found it more annoying because it naturally breaks sites that I do know keybindings for like YouTube. Overall I don't want to come across as critical of of something that just needs a little effort to use, more of just setting expectations. Normally this would be less of an issue but for me, I ran into this problem…

The few times that happens to me I just hit “i” to enter insert mode and try again.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by gandalfgeek »

keyle wrote: post #9

For those looking to replace the mouse at the OS level on macOS (similar vibe), Scoot is pretty good for that... https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot

On MacOS I've been using homerow.app which does the same thing as Scoot but looks a bit more polished.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by joobus »

tastysandwich wrote: post #12

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful. I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it. As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in foc…

> Most annoyingly, a lot of websites have custom keyboard shortcuts, so you have to blacklist them in the Vimium config.

No, you just need to enter insert mode. Hit `i`, then all the keyboard shortcuts for the site work. Exit insert mode with escape or ctrl+[.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by sodapopcan »

joobus wrote: post #15
tastysandwich wrote: post #12

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful. I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it. As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in foc…

> Most annoyingly, a lot of websites have custom keyboard shortcuts, so you have to blacklist them in the Vimium config. No, you just need to enter insert mode. Hit `i`, then all the keyboard shortcuts for the site work. Exit insert mode with escape or ctrl+[.

:mind-unrectifiably-blown-emoji:

Thanks for this, this changes everything. Namely, I can re-enable most commands that I've globally disabled. Who woulda thought the path to enlightenment would be to simply RTFM.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by mplanchard »

aliencat wrote: post #6

I also recommended vimium-c ( https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c ). It's like vimium on steroid: with a bunch of additional useful features.

Came here to make the same recommendation, so just making this comment to second yours.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by ithrow »

tastysandwich wrote: post #12

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful. I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it. As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in foc…

I can't let vimium go even as an emacs user ;)

As someone else replied, insert mode.

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