Vimium - The Hacker's Browser
vimium.github.io

If you are not using this you are unironically wasting your life

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been meaning to try this out for ages as a way to get into vim shortcuts. I have completely forgotten about until this post. So far I love this!

  • vort3@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 days ago

    I don’t remember why, but I chose trydactil. If you don’t like vimium, check it out.

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Wow, didn’t know development for this was active again. Was using vimium-c as the original was not maintained until recently.

    Will have to compare which one is more performant.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’ve used a few in the back and my actual favorite was Surfingkeys. But regarding that, there was some controversies, so I stopped using it. And recently installed Vimium-C too, because the original was no longer developed. But it’s not only that, because this fork has features the original does not have and was forked in 2014. Meaning it diverged from original since 11 years.

      Project Introduction to Vimium-C

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    2 days ago

    I don’t really need a way to scroll with vim keys; when I’m not actively typing something, the arrow and pgup/pgdown keys (and especially the space bar) are easier to reach than hjkl.

    What I would really like is to have modal editing in text fields in the browser, e.g. writing Lemmy comments like I would in vim. Is there an extension for that too? :(

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    Vimium, Neovim, Tiling Window Manager, Ortholinear Keyboard, Text Expander. Just do these.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        Others point to paying for text expanders, but a simple free one is Espanso.

        I use it in combination with nvim and bash scripts to set up large HTML templates and latex math formulas as well as much else to save on repetitive typing.

        Getting creative with espanso and nvim can be quite satisfying, especially if you code.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 days ago

        looks like a subscription based extension / service for canned responses.

        eg typing :pricing produces some canned response about whatever pricing you provide, with some tokens filled with recipients name etc. I guess it could be handy for some tasks, but paying for it? eeeh.

        • vort3@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 day ago

          For static expansions (no placeholders that change) I just use Compose key sequences, it’s free and it works out of the box on pretty much any linux variant.

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Their sample video showing off the extension is a blast from the past. I forgot how functional everything looked back then compared to the modern design.

    I should give it a try since I use vim bindings for plenty of other applications.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      20 hours ago

      Damn now I’ve got three vimkey controls addons not counting teh rest what a thread what a thread

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        19 hours ago

        the others are all webextensions while this one hacks firefox to work on a lower level, so this is the most privileged and is the only one that works before page loads and on browser internal pages. highly recommended

  • myszka@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    Check out Qutebrowser as well. It is much more configurable, although it is arguably much less polished

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
    22·
    2 days ago

    No, wasting my life is reading dumb posts like this, that claims to know the truth for all… Unironically.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      I certainly do not know the truth of it all, and because of my clickbait I have just learned of a few extra addons