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Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by AdrienLemaire »

susam wrote: post #11

In the graphical browser category, I have tried Qutebrowser and it is neat. However, Firefox remains as my primary web browser. I use the Vimium plugin with Firefox. It provides Vim-like key bindings for many commonly used browsing tasks. My most favourite commands in Vimum are 'f' and 'F'. The 'f' or 'F' command creates key combinations for all the links found in the page. It highlights the key combinations in littl…

I love Vimium too! (using on chrome) Took me a while to learn all the shortcuts (thanks Anki!), but that was worth it. Wish it was more integrated to the browser though (having to wait for a page to finish loading before I can use a shortcut is sometimes annoying).

You're not mentioning my favorite Vimium command! m to save a mark, and ` to load it. lowercase chars marks are in-page marks, and uppercase chars are global marks (like bookmarks).

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by AdrienLemaire »

pgutfreund wrote: post #3

Mupdf on linux is both lightweight and vim-like

Mupdf is listed in the Configurations part.

I used mupdf for years. Then I discovered llpp (a wrapper on top of mupdf). I never went back since, this is my favorite pdf reader by far :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Llpp

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by AdrienLemaire »

Thanks, I didn't know about imv. Have been using feh forever, and always found it annoying that it wouldn't load svg files. Problem fixed with imv.

EDIT: actually realised that feh has a --conversion-timeout param to help with svg files. But well, imv also supports gif!

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by maddyboo »

alpaca128 wrote: post #17
susam wrote: post #11

In the graphical browser category, I have tried Qutebrowser and it is neat. However, Firefox remains as my primary web browser. I use the Vimium plugin with Firefox. It provides Vim-like key bindings for many commonly used browsing tasks. My most favourite commands in Vimum are 'f' and 'F'. The 'f' or 'F' command creates key combinations for all the links found in the page. It highlights the key combinations in littl…

Same here - I used qutebrowser exclusively for a couple months, but in the end I couldn't handle all the annoying popups and autoplaying videos in modern websites - all things that you can block with a single plugin in Firefox, together with ads. Too bad, because Vim plugins never allow full UI control in Firefox(e.g. closing an empty "new tab" is impossible with Vim plugins). Recently I switched from Vimium to Surfi…

SurfingKeys is my top 5 most useful pieces of software. I’ve heavily customized it to make my web browsing as efficient as possible for my workflow.

Check out my configuration to get some ideas of what you can do: https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf

Note that while I currently use Firefox, I haven’t yet added instructions on how to install my config there, which is different to Chrome due to lack of file system access permissions. Long story short, use the `gulp serve` task to start a server on `localhost:9919`, then point the SurfingKeys configurator there.

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by anthk »

iLemming wrote: post #88
njacobs5074 wrote: post #86

Wait! How could they leave out basically all of the rogue-like games? They all have key bindings that draw heavily from vi.

Big shoutout to https://vim-adventures.com . Without that little game I would never learn how to live without arrow keys.

Not that game, just run nethack.

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by Seirdy »

Bananaman28 wrote: post #37

I can recommend Wasavi, which is a browser extension that allows you to use Vim commands in most text windows you can edit. https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi I use it on a daily basis and although it's not Vim it's still pretty good.

Tridactyl [0] lets you open text fields in your preferred $EDITOR with a keybind, open YouTube/Vimeo/etc links in MPV, etc. on top of adding Vim navigation to Firefox.

This comment was written in a floating Neovim window opened by Tridactyl.

[0]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/

Re: Big Pile of Vim-Like

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Post by _jal »

rudedogg wrote: post #85
_jal wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A different consideration is people's motivation to pay, and longevity is one aspect of that - buyer's confidence. I paid money for an extension that promptly became unsupported and then died in an upgrade. Which is fine, whatever, but it did put a big question mark over the category of "paid browser extension" for me. Knowing the source will be out there would fix that part for me - I may not be able to take over de…

Thanks for explaining that. I forget the exact history, but I know they've changed up the extension types/APIs multiple times in the past few years. I think a lot of developers/companies gave up on them after being forced to rewrite. To confirm, is the model you and the parent would like: "After x units are sold, or after 12 months (whichever comes first), the project will be open sourced and changed to free in the A…

I'm personally not super picky about the particular terms, those would work for me.

Yeah, writing extensions for browsers appears to be increasingly unpleasant.

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