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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 khqc »

et1337 wrote: post #13
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.

I actually like using "i" to toggle enabling/disabling the extension, more convenient and powerful imo

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

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Post by qolop »

I've been using Vimium for quite some time now, and while I like it, there are two things which annoy the hell out of me.

Vimium disables the browser's backward-forward cache (by listening to the "unload" event), causing navigation to be much slower.

There is also no way for a website owner to warn a Vimium user of conflicting keybindings. I run a website which implements Vim keybindings and several of my users complain that it doesn't work. I have to remind them to disable Vimium. This issue has been open on their GitHub for more than 4 years with no end in sight.

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

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Post by devsda »

The home page doesnt make it obvious but there's a port for Firefox too.

It does not compare directly with the old vimperator addon but it works great for regular browser navigation.

The only occasional glitch I saw was in UI for adding site exceptions.

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

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Post by N3cr0ph4g1st »

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.

Any specific things you do with vimium-c that are must have features to switch over?

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

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Post by TheLocehiliosan »

gandalfgeek wrote: post #14
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.

I like Shortcat

https://shortcat.app

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

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

qolop wrote: post #22

I've been using Vimium for quite some time now, and while I like it, there are two things which annoy the hell out of me. Vimium disables the browser's backward-forward cache (by listening to the "unload" event), causing navigation to be much slower. There is also no way for a website owner to warn a Vimium user of conflicting keybindings. I run a website which implements Vim keybindings and several of my users compl…

At least in firefox, I'm not sure that's true. I go back pretty frequently (maybe you mean specifically with vimium back navigation) and get yesterday's cached HN front page, for example.
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