firefox + vim = vimperator

If you are an avid vim user and you were always wondering how to combine the power of vim with your browser, vimperator is your new best friend.

I just found out about vimperator randomly yesterday and added it to firefox immediately. It’s kind of scary at first, but you soon feel right at home in your browser again. It’s really scary how vim-like it is. I still have a lot to learn for the basics in it, but you gotta start somewhere.

If you’re a vim addict (like myself), give it a try now!

If you’re a current vimperator user, any tips? Useful links?

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2 Responses to “firefox + vim = vimperator”

Necoro Says:
October 14, 2009 at 10:12 am

Vimperator is great . But sometimes it gets in your way, when it decides to switch modes randomly.

The most important settings I have:

# have a really nice completion, showing you all the choices
set wildoptions=auto

# open popus in a new window, if they try to change size
# else your main window may resize or the popup behave strange
set popups=2
Mike B Says:
October 17, 2009 at 3:56 pm

I’m a big fan of the following shortcuts, for scrolling:

map
map J
map K

CTRL-Z activates Pass Through mode, which reverts everything back to normal for pages that don’t wish to cooperate with vimperator.

And for following links, f may open up a link, but F opens it up in a new tab. Awesome.

Keep Vimming,
Mike

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