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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 nrabulinski »

level87 wrote: post #94
nrabulinski wrote: post #82

Every time this comes up I wonder why no one mentions qute and nyxt browsers which natively support those bindings and have much more minimal UI. I used to be a vimium user at first, then tridactyl but both fell short and felt hacky and for roughly a year now I’ve been using qutebrowser which is miles better.

I've tried qutebrowser, but always get frustrated with the lack of plugins like adblock.

Qutebrowser has a builtin adblocker and while the ecosystem is much, much smaller than Chrome’s or even FF’s or Safari’s, I haven’t found it lacking to the point of being unusable. Just frustrating a little bit at first, but userscripts from the qutebrowser repo cover pretty much everything for me.

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

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Post by int3 »

philc wrote: post #98
int3 wrote: post #92

Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use! I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to detect the visibility of different kinds of elements, in order that we could display link hints correctly: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/test_harnesses/v...

You crushed it Jez! I wish we could work on more projects together.

It was a great experience! Thanks for your code reviews and mentorship :)

Not sure I'll have much time to work on OSS in the foreseeable future, but it would certainly be nice to work together again.

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

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Post by philc »

(I'm one of the authors) Love seeing this on HN today! It seems to get some front page attention every couple of years. Thank you everyone for the encouragement!

Related: last week I published a very similar extension, but for Google Sheets. https://github.com/philc/sheetkeys

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

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Post by john_minsk »

lelandbatey wrote: post #78
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'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 hu…

Kudos. If I need to do something or return to something it becomes a card in Trello, not a tab which I always need to evaluate if I need it open or not, is it important or not, what did I want to do with this information last time I saw it etc.

And Trello card is an action item which will eventually get to the "DONE" column, will be decomposed into actionable items or will be deleted/archived during the next review event.

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

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Post by m0rtalis »

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.

Yeah sorry I'm getting anxiety when I see that many Chinese characters in a README.

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

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Post by valvar »

bharathyes wrote: post #91
epigramx wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

it is. i am one of those who have atleast 100 tab on any workday, more on my personal system. i also use bookmark service like raindrop that have tagging, etc than simple folders. Main reason for keeping tags are they are a constant reminder of topics to look into. Kinda like postits on your monitor. If I put them away using bookmarks I often forget about them and neder get to them. I have folders with hundreds of li…

Isn't that just stressful? Are you ever going to look at more than 20% of the things on your backlog?

My approach is to bookmark things and then if I feel like it's time to read up on something or just a good time to work on the reading backlog, I'll just pick whatever seems suitable at a first glance.

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

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Post by john_minsk »

rsapkf wrote: post #89

One Vimium feature that I use a lot is the "Vomnibar". As a heavy bookmarks user, it lets me easily search for any existing duplicates before bookmarking a page by just pressing 'b'. If I start the search with "/ ", it will show the full path to the bookmark folder too!

Always wondered what's this bar doing when accidentally pressing 'b' in the browser:-D Thanks!

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

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Post by edanm »

int3 wrote: post #92

Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use! I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to detect the visibility of different kinds of elements, in order that we could display link hints correctly: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/test_harnesses/v...

Oh really? I've been using it for years and love it, so thanks for that!

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

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Post by danielskogly »

int3 wrote: post #92

Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use! I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to detect the visibility of different kinds of elements, in order that we could display link hints correctly: https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/test_harnesses/v...

How fun! I'm also quite proud of another contribution, also related to detecting visibility, but this time with `document.elementFromPoint` to filter out elements completely covered by other ones :)

https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/2251

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