Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by NoThisIsMe on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:08PM
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I've only ever used Vimium-FF, so I'm not sure how it compares to the Chromium version, but it worked well enough. Now I use Tridactyl. Check it out. It takes the concept a lot further than Vimium.
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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by pca006132 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:27PM
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I just checked the GitHub page for Tridactyl, it seems to have so many features. Do you have any frequently used feature that only Tridactyl provides but not Vimium-FF?
Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by RMPR on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:01AM
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There was a HN post[0] recently about that, you can find more insights reading the comments. I went from vim-vixen to vimium then to tridactyl. As for features that only Tridactyl provides (things may have change in the meantime) I must say that I absolutely love their hinting mode. It's totally different from anything I have used (even qutebrowser's which is completely keyboard focused [1]). It also provides a desktop executable that allows you to edit everything in Vim. That said, I've been using it for 6 months and I know I only scratched the surface.
Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by NoThisIsMe on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:52AM
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sure. i think the big ones are all kind of related:
- a proper commandline, not just "open url / search" field
- everything's an excmd. you can compose them and write your own. you can bind them to keys or use them adhoc.
- you can define excmds that execute javascript snippets
- ~/.config/tridactylrc
Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by NoThisIsMe on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:02PM
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(oops, those are supposed to be bullet points. seems it's too late to edit now.)