> "who am I trying to impress anyway"

Agree, besides you need your mouse to copy-paste code from StackOverflow anyway

Not with Vimium you don't.

How do you select a block of text with Vimium?

Almost the same way as in vim ;)

1. Search for the text you want to copy with '/my-search-term' 2. Switch to visual mode with 'v' 3. Select the text you want 4. Yank!

Visual Mode https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Visual-Mode

Note btw that Firefox support something called caret browsing (maybe other browsers as well, but i stick with Firefox if technically possible). Hit F7 and you can navigate around a page using a caret.

I’ve never heard of or used Vimium before. But based on the name, it stands to reason that some variant of the ‘v’ key should select text.

Not if you browse within emacs :-)