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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 NERD_ALERT »

sodapopcan wrote: post #64
helmholtz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zen. And MaxTabs. I limit myself to 5 tabs by force. Anything more, it means I'm becoming scatterbrained and need to revisit what I already have opened and think more linearly rather than in a spastic manner. I tried saving tabs for reference material, but I prefer something simpler. I shutdown my PC at the end of the day. I have a dump.txt where every link that might get needed tomorrow gets pasted.

This is intriguing. Do you happen to have a blog post or similar documentation about your process?

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about this. I’ve also never allowed myself to have more than 5-6 tabs at a time because it just seemed reasonable. I’m not sure what I could possibly be doing that requires more tabs. I have an organized bookmark folder structure for things I absolutely need to get back to/visit regularly. I’m using my browser for no more than a couple streams of thought at any given time.

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

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Post by sodapopcan »

NERD_ALERT wrote: post #71
sodapopcan wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is intriguing. Do you happen to have a blog post or similar documentation about your process?

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about this. I’ve also never allowed myself to have more than 5-6 tabs at a time because it just seemed reasonable. I’m not sure what I could possibly be doing that requires more tabs. I have an organized bookmark folder structure for things I absolutely need to get back to/visit regularly. I’m using my browser for no more than a couple streams of thought at any given time.

That's a pretty aggressive and unhelpful response. While your brain might be tuned to perfect tab management, I've worked with very talented people who hang on to tons of tabs (amongst other idiosyncrasies). Some want to change (I deign to consider myself one of these people), others don't and still go on to be productive, awesome developers.

You seem to have mastered pure focus which is an amazing, coveted trait, but we don't all have it.

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

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Post by mrmr1993 »

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.

I think this may have been this issue[0], which was fixed in [1]. Seems like the limit has crept up from 3 to 25 at some point in the last decade-ish, but in theory it should be undoable with 25X (or by mashing X to undo as many x commands as required). [0]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/1126 [1]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/1128

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

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Post by dingaling »

dmix wrote: post #33
belinder wrote: post #32

Been using vimium for years. I have gotten so used to scrolling pages at different speed by pressing keys that whenever I am using someone else's computer I have to fight muscle memory. I also use it for clicking links through keybinds, but really the custom up/down is the main usage. The occasional website having its own keybinds never stops being annoying, but it's easy to disable the extension per site

100%. Scrolling with arrows/mouse instead of hitting j or k just feels uncomfortable. Maybe there's something to be learned by browser designers. It's not just the fact it's on the home row and muscle memory for Vim users. The default speed for down/up arrow scrolling and lack of smoothing is just not the same.

> Scrolling with arrows/mouse instead of hitting j or k just feels uncomfortable.

Page Up/Down?

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

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Post by lelandbatey »

sodapopcan wrote: post #64
helmholtz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zen. And MaxTabs. I limit myself to 5 tabs by force. Anything more, it means I'm becoming scatterbrained and need to revisit what I already have opened and think more linearly rather than in a spastic manner. I tried saving tabs for reference material, but I prefer something simpler. I shutdown my PC at the end of the day. I have a dump.txt where every link that might get needed tomorrow gets pasted.

This is intriguing. Do you happen to have a blog post or similar documentation about your process?

I'm not who asked, but I can explain my own and other's perspective: don't passively accumulate detritus. If you want to remember something , you must write it down or take a note, just like if you were in school. Don't just "throw another tab on the pile". That's like a .txt file full of links you're just pasting and pasting into. Are you really ever going to go and review those links?

Folks who successfully have huge numbers of tabs and who really love that, in my experience, are treating their tabs like a different kind of bookmark, or they just have a ton of bookmarks. They'll usually use a categorization feature of some kind in order to organize their tabs just like someone organizes a library. Whether you're using tabs, bookmarks, written notes, whatever, all these systems in general are just some form of active tracking.

If you're not actively organizing and tracking though, why not free yourself and merely close your tabs aggressively? It's pretty easy, just uncheck the "Re-open tabs on startup" or the equivalent in your browser settings, then just click the "close" button on your window with all your hundreds of tabs. Let them go, and free yourself of worrying about them!

Besides, if you REALLY need them, you've always got your browser history anyway ;)

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

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Post by epigramx »

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.

is this some kind of modern-day hoarding? how would you even find that useful? why don't you use bookmarks for the earliest ones?
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