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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: oTurtlez on Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:01:03
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So, when I bring my laptop anywhere, I always have my HHKB in my bag for when I have any decent amount of desk space for me to plop it down. I had the issue that I didn't want to bring an external mouse around as well and reaching over my HHKB got annoying to just use the trackpad. So about a month or so ago I saw someone talk about Vimium and decided to give it a try and oh my glob I'm in love. It makes web browsing from one position so much easier and I'm not sure if I can ever use a mouse on the internet (by choice) ever again.
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wow this looks really cool. i'm installing it right now.
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vimium is awesome. its on all my machines. between that and a tiling windows manager for mac called slate and a handful of scripts (ranger, ncmpcpp, mopity, irssi, etc) i can do 99% of my work without touching the mouse.
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vimium is awesome. its on all my machines. between that and a tiling windows manager for mac called slate and a handful of scripts (ranger, ncmpcpp, mopity, irssi, etc) i can do 99% of my work without touching the mouse.
Same for me with variations :P
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Yes it is.
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Agree! I love vimium. With its help I'm nearly mouseless at work as well.
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vimium is awesome. its on all my machines. between that and a tiling windows manager for mac called slate and a handful of scripts (ranger, ncmpcpp, mopity, irssi, etc) i can do 99% of my work without touching the mouse.
Yeah, I love Slate. Between Slate, Tmux, Vim and various Vim emulation plugins for browsers and IDEs, OS X becomes a very keyboard-friendly development environment.
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THIS!
Vimium is BY FAR the most important plugin I've got.
With vimium, ratpoison, and vim for coding, you can do some real work without a mouse.
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THIS!
Vimium is BY FAR the most important plugin I've got.
With vimium, ratpoison, and vim for coding, you can do some real work without a mouse.
holy crap, ratpoison is old!
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THIS!
Vimium is BY FAR the most important plugin I've got.
With vimium, ratpoison, and vim for coding, you can do some real work without a mouse.
holy crap, ratpoison is old!
Who cares?! I have a 1988 M, and it's the best keyboard I've ever used!
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THIS!
Vimium is BY FAR the most important plugin I've got.
With vimium, ratpoison, and vim for coding, you can do some real work without a mouse.
holy crap, ratpoison is old!
Who cares?! I have a 1988 M, and it's the best keyboard I've ever used!
True, I do like My M as well, but I've moved on WMs :P
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I scrapped Vimium/Pentadactyl in favor of whipping up custom keyboard navigation for sites I frequent. It breaks the internet slightly less in most places.
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Looks interesting, but only in the aspect of being able to click links. Outside of that, I'm already using the navigation throughout the browser the standard shortcuts/keys already present. And even then, clicking links with your keyboard isn't impossible either.
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Alright, so I've been reading/seeing things about Vimium, but never actually took the time to try it out.
All I can say is - Very nice!
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For Firefox users, Pentadactyl (http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/) is the same thing and also quite good, though you'll have to install the nightly build as there hasn't been a release in ages.
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Yes!!! I started to use Vimium about 6 months ago and it has changed my life.
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I just installed vimium and navigated to this page without using my mouse.. I could get used to this. Thanks for sharing!!
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wow. I just installed it. I love it.
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Also just installed it and its a great add on!
need to find something like this for the rest of the OS now
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I would think something like this already exists for most operating systems.
Technically, windows already has a bunch of shortcuts through the keyboard.
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just read the thread :eek: and installed it
very nice.......... :thumb:
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need to find something like this for the rest of the OS now
#ratpoison
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need to find something like this for the rest of the OS now
#ratpoison
I like awesomewm, but really, any of the tiling window managers are great.
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No qtile love here? :(
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vimium is quite cool
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It's too bad that there's no Vimperator for Chrome.
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Went to check out the add on page and the search they're doing in their demo video is for Ready Player One which I happened to be listening to in another tab.
Edit: I don't really know what I was expecting but this is going to take some work to be useful in Colemak.
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Went to check out the add on page and the search they're doing in their demo video is for Ready Player One which I happened to be listening to in another tab.
Edit: I don't really know what I was expecting but this is going to take some work to be useful in Colemak.
You can remap everything, jwaz.
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Went to check out the add on page and the search they're doing in their demo video is for Ready Player One which I happened to be listening to in another tab.
Edit: I don't really know what I was expecting but this is going to take some work to be useful in Colemak.
You can remap everything, jwaz.
For sure, I'm lazy though :P
I only poked around in the menus for a sec, I'll have to go back spend so more time trying to get it working
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Went to check out the add on page and the search they're doing in their demo video is for Ready Player One which I happened to be listening to in another tab.
Edit: I don't really know what I was expecting but this is going to take some work to be useful in Colemak.
You can remap everything, jwaz.
For sure, I'm lazy though :P
I only poked around in the menus for a sec, I'll have to go back spend so more time trying to get it working
Even I use it, and I'm an emacs guy! It's useful :P Overcome your laziness!
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Went to check out the add on page and the search they're doing in their demo video is for Ready Player One which I happened to be listening to in another tab.
Edit: I don't really know what I was expecting but this is going to take some work to be useful in Colemak.
You can remap everything, jwaz.
For sure, I'm lazy though :P
I only poked around in the menus for a sec, I'll have to go back spend so more time trying to get it working
Even I use it, and I'm an emacs guy! It's useful :P Overcome your laziness!
/me begrudgingly goes to setup Vimium
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I am trying this right now. Trying to configure it for Colemak. It will be interesting to learn this.
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Might be worth googling for Colemak vim mappings. I'm sure they exist -- the intersection of Colemakers and vimmers is probably large.
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Might be worth googling for Colemak vim mappings. I'm sure they exist -- the intersection of Colemakers and vimmers is probably large.
I just did that. I found a pretty good one. Just trying to get used to getting in and out of textboxes. It is a little tricky but I think I am getting the hang of this
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ok, maybe this is vim related... but why do i care so much about using j/k to scroll down when i can use the arrow keys? or pgup/pgdwn and next tab k,gt is longer than just using ctrl+pgdn... is it all just to keep everything on the home keys? i do like the clickable links, that's it really.
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For scrolling, tabbing, closing, etc. I don't think the vim-style hotkeys are a huge win. It's nice that they're consistent with vim but yeah. No big deal.
The mouseless links are the real winner. (Yes I know you can Ctrl-F + Enter to follow text links in vanilla Chrome, but the vimium link following scheme is much superior.)
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For scrolling, tabbing, closing, etc. I don't think the vim-style hotkeys are a huge win. It's nice that they're consistent with vim but yeah. No big deal.
The mouseless links are the real winner. (Yes I know you can Ctrl-F + Enter to follow text links in vanilla Chrome, but the vimium link following scheme is much superior.)
Not having to move your hands from the home row to navigate is useful.
But the mouseless links are the best indeed.
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Yes, vimium is awesome. As of now if I had to have one extension, vimium would definitely be it. I feel semi-crippled when I have to browse without it.
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I'm going to have to try this. I don't mind using the mouse, to be honest, but I find it a little more engaging to use the keyboard solely.
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I'm going to have to try this. I don't mind using the mouse, to be honest, but I find it a little more engaging to use the keyboard solely.
Totally worth it after spending a couple hundred on keyboards.
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As a laptop user trying to avoid the temperamental Synaptic touchpad, I love this. Thanks for sharing!!
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ok, maybe this is vim related... but why do i care so much about using j/k to scroll down when i can use the arrow keys? or pgup/pgdwn and next tab k,gt is longer than just using ctrl+pgdn... is it all just to keep everything on the home keys? i do like the clickable links, that's it really.
Apologies for resurrecting this thread, but I have done remappings to have j and k work for moving tabs, and h and l move back and forward in my history. I think that's the a win over the alt-arrow combinations.
Thanks for the recommendation!