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
#2This comes up every once in a while on HN. I've been using vimium for over 10 years now since I did an internship at the same company as the guys who created it. Can't imagine browsing the web without it. Works especially well with HN and those small link targets :)
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#3Tried 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 while on my rowing machine, and I didn't want to stop to fiddle with keybindings.
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#4I'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.
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#5this is perfect for my usecase in firefox and mainly text only browsing, vim is perfectly designed to use the limited keyboard options and even more limited cognitive load humans can handle [alt shift ;) you know what i am talking about]
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#6I also recommended vimium-c (https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c). It's like vimium on steroid: with a bunch of additional useful features.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#7Tried 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…
You might already know, but if you click on the extension icon, you can specify which pages to disable it for. I disable it in pages that have useful keyboard navigations. But it's great for things like HN, where I can use J/K to navigate, then hit F and open a link I want.
Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
#8Tried 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…
I've used this in the past, and I've found that it's not a 1:1 replacement but rather an add-on to my browsing habits. It's great when having lunch with greasy fingers, I can do most things with one pinky press!
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#9For 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
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#10I used this everyday for the past 3 years. can't imagine browsing without it