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caret navigation (getting a text cursor) in Google Chrome?
Recently Google Chrome introduced built-in functionality to browser with caret, just press F7 or go to Settings > Advanced > Accessibility and then turn on "Navigate pages with a text ...
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
Update #2: fix released
reinstall Vimperator
Update: fix done
Fix was done and contributed to Vimperator, new version was built with it, but it needs Mozilla's verification before publishing so it ...
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Commandline vimperator-like browser?
Alternatively, you can start lynx with vikeys argument:
lynx -vikeys
To start lynx with vi key binding turned on.
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Show link destination with Vimperator
The "showstatuslinks" setting allows you to see the selected link (or any link you hover over with the mouse) just above the status bar. Set it to 3 like this:
:set ssli=3
Details:
'...
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
It's broken for many people. If you can't wait for the fix to be released, there is a workaround method available (that works for me at least) https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/568#...
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DuckDuckGo Keyboard Shortcuts
In vimperator you can tap I to :ignorekeys add https?://duckduckgo\\.com/\\?q=.*. This will make vimperator to automatically turn on ignorekeys mode whenever you enter duckduckgo and leave the mode ...
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Adding "comma" in ignorekeys list in Vimperator
You can edit the comma into the "ignored-keys" file under /vimperator/info/default directly. The exception keys are wrapped in double quotes and comma separated, and list itself is enclosed in square ...
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Firefox previous tab
Vimperator provides you with two methods to get to the previous tab, which is knows as the "alternate buffer":
:b # - This uses the shortcut for the buffers command and # marks the alternate buffer. ...
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Firefox previous tab
I don't use Vimperator, but it is possible to make Firefox use the last-used order when switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab (this means you can get back to the tab you were working on before hitting Ctrl+T ...
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
The solution is to downgrade Firefox back to 50.1.*
EDIT:
Vimperator is working in version 54.0.1
Just tried out qutebrowser which is a browser written for vim users. It looks awesome but it doesn't ...
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
I mapped t to Control+t + open in .vimperatorrc like so:
nnoremap t <C-t> o
nnoremap T y <C-t> o <C-v>
This mimics the old tabopen command.
You can also do this for the other ...
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Vimperator: How to press on buttons which aren't really links
This is not an answer to the problem, but the issue may be circumvented with :set usermode in some cases (:se um for short). This lets you view the page with minimal CSS and reduces it to HTML ...
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how to quickly switch to an already opened tab (buffer) in Vimperator
I simply use b + keywords to filter the list and TAB to go through it.
I also switch to the previous visited tab with C-6 for which I made another key:
" .vimperatorrc
map <A-v> <C-6>
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
Add this line in the file ".vimperatorrc" or "_vimperatorrc":
nnoremap t <C-t>
So when you press "t", rather than using ":tabopen " it opens a new tab in Firefox and lets you type in the url ...
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Show number of find matches
Default search in Vimperator is not ideal and I don't think there's a pure Vimperator way to solve this at the moment.
You can still get this information from the Firefox internal search (which I ...
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How to open the previous url from the history in a new tab in Vimperator
There are a couple of ways to do this.
New tab - then history
One is to open a tab, then go back in history:
:tabopen Enter to open a tab.
:history Space to open the interactive history list. Then ...
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vimperator focus firefox built in search
You should be able to use the default Firefox mapping for this function called "Focus Search bar" and is listed on the Firefox shortcuts. Working on Linux, Ctrl+K focuses that box while in command ...
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Mapping Keys to Commands in Vimperator
Use this in your .vimperatorrc:
map ww :tabclose<CR>
The trick is to remove the <> around the ww. I spotted the problem by typing :map and seeing the offered completions which included ...
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DuckDuckGo Keyboard Shortcuts
There are alternative mappings available which might work for f and F using the hint ;:
Follow link: f, use ;o
Follow link in new tab: F, use ;t
Hopefully the ; won't "go missing" in the same way as ...
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vimperator: write foo.html without foo_files/*
A keyboard only workaround, which doesn't use Vimperator, is to pop Firefox's Save As modal and pick "web page only" as you mention.
Use: i <C-S>
Explanation: i sets Vimperator to ignore the ...
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Vimperator: How to press on buttons which aren't really links
If buttons have text you should be able to find the text and press enter, which executes the button. Just tested this on this site:
On the right side of the picture, you have a tag. It's a button. It'...
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caret navigation (getting a text cursor) in Google Chrome?
The chrome extension, Caret Browsing supports mode switching between the caret and the normal browsing.
I think many people'd like the caret navigation back/forward as well, but it hasn't supplied ...
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Using Private Browsing keyboard shortcut with Firefox and Vimperator
nnoremap <c-s-p> i<c-s-p>
on ~/.vimperatorrc and :source ~/.vimperatorrc automates what Dave said and gives us Ctrl+Shift+P back.
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In vimperator, how to pass through certain keys on certain sites?
A bit late, but for anyone that stumbles across this question.
At the time of writing, 2017-02-15, vimperator have the option "passthrough" that can be toggled by:
:set passthrough
and
:set ...
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Firefox Addon to follow links by keyboard?
What about Vim Vixen?
Vim Vixen is a Firefox add-on which allows you to easily navigate the
web by keyboard. Since version 57, Firefox has migrated to the
WebExtensions API and has dropped support ...
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