This is Your Brain on Vim

Re:This is Your Brain on Vim by jokermatt999 on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @01:33PM (#2009199)

Get Pentadactyl! (a fork of Vimperator) It adds vim-like navigation to Firefox. Granted, 1w won't work, but a good deal of other shortcuts do. There's a handy shortcut to edit any textbox in Vim also, but I can't recall what it is. I seriously cannot recommend this addon enough; it completely changed my browsing experience.

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

Edit: Fixed spelling, added link.

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Re:This is Your Brain on Vim by jodrellblank on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:23PM (#2009421)

I tried switching vimperator for pentadactyl today and found some unpleasant buggy behaviour. Will try again when not so many tabs open and uninstalled it.

Turns out what I use most is 'd' to close tabs and 'u' to unclose them. Most of the rest of vimperator passes me by except when I fight the modal/passthrough/where the hell are my keypresses going moments.

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