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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 sodapopcan »

sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

Holy shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".

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

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Post by rbalicki »

I love being able to easily navigate between tabs (a/J and s/K for me), go back/forward (h and l), open the current tab in a new window, close the current tab, etc. though (of course) the killer feature is "link highlighting" or whatever it's called. You can also enable "link highlighting" where selecting a link copies the URL. I also find that occasionally useful!

I can't use the web without vimium.

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

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Post by devsda »

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.

Nice feature set especially the Contextual keymapping. Can think of some interesting use cases it enables.

Offtopic:

The section "Declaration for Applicable Regions" from ReadMe, this is the first time I've come across it.

Should it be read as a disclaimer or an opinion?

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

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Post by komali2 »

sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

You successfully closed a vim-UX interfaced program?

I'm sorry you lost your tabs but congratulations nonetheless.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-v...

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

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Post by ColonelPhantom »

I used to be a loving VimFX [0] user. It had intelligent link hints (essentially, links it thinks you are likely to want, e.g. because they're big, get single-key shortcuts). The scrolling was actually native, as in equivalent to hitting the arrow keys. I don't think any of the other Vim emulator plugins ever replicated that. Vimium doesn't, Tridactyl doesn't, and Vim Vixen was horribly broken.

Apparently VimFX still runs via some hacks on modern Firefox versions? The last release was even in 2022. Maybe I should give it a try again.

[0] https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx

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

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Post by Arelius »

sodapopcan wrote: post #41
sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

Holy shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".

Honestly, I don't know how you all stay so low, I'm down to 1172, and getting it even that low feels like a bit of an accomplishment.

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

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Post by tyre »

Arelius wrote: post #47
sodapopcan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".

Honestly, I don't know how you all stay so low, I'm down to 1172, and getting it even that low feels like a bit of an accomplishment.

What are you doing with these tabs? Are they a reading list? Things like gmail that you could reopen whenever?

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

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Post by rottc0dd »

sodapopcan wrote: post #41
sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

Holy shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".

I have once went upto 1674 in Firefox.

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

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Post by leshenka »

komali2 wrote: post #45
sva_ wrote: post #40

I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.

You successfully closed a vim-UX interfaced program? I'm sorry you lost your tabs but congratulations nonetheless. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-v...

They've said it's a bug. You'd never close anything was it not for this bug
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