Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by Sodman on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:28PM (#24702003)

I love vimum, use it myself, but my biggest gripe with it (also half-addressed in the article) is that sites with good power-user focused keyboard shortcuts built-in are almost always going to beat a generic plugin like vimium. So you're left with choosing one of two compromise options:

1) Ignore the nice app-native keyboard shortcuts and just use vimium everywhere (Frustrating when single-key shortcuts in the app are multiple drop-down menu clicks with vimium)

2) Disable Vimium on shortcut-rich apps, but deal with the inconsistencies. (Eg clicking on the link in the body of an e-mail in gmail now needs a mouse again)

I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.

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Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by wcoenen on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:40PM (#24702113)

> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.

I thought that was what "insert mode" was used for. Hit i to go into insert mode, ESC to get out.

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Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by Sodman on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#24702281)

As a daily vim (editor) user, I had no idea that's what insert mode did in this context! I had never used it in vimium before. Thank you!!!

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Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by _ikke_ on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#24702285)

Yes, exactly. It also allows you to specify keys that it should ignore per site (so that the webapp always receive them), or even completely disable vimium for a site (or just specific pages on a site). By default, it's not active on gmail for example.

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Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by bovine3dom on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:02PM (#24702304)

> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.

Tridactyl has this, bound to ctrl-v by default. Implementation is here [1] if anyone wants to try to add it to Vimium.

[1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14...

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Re:Look ma, no mouse: Vimium by blue_potato on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:23PM (#24703628)

For a escaping a single keypress in Vimium, you can use a mapping like

  map , passNextKey

I think it's mapped to `I` by default.

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