Author Topic: Vimium is Amazing (Read 7657 times)

oTurtlez · « **on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:01:03 »

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.

badcop · « **Reply #1 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:03:06 »

wow this looks really cool. i'm installing it right now.

acantha · « **Reply #2 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:08:07 »

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.

lcs · « **Reply #3 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:11:02 »

Quote from: acantha on Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:08:07

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

SeriouSSpotS · « **Reply #4 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:34:39 »

Yes it is.

hashbaz · « **Reply #5 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:36:42 »

Agree! I love vimium. With its help I'm nearly mouseless at work as well.

vyshane · « **Reply #6 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:22:56 »

Quote from: acantha on Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:08:07

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.

Thimplum · « **Reply #7 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:26:34 »

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.

lcs · « **Reply #8 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:35:39 »

Quote from: Thimplum on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:26:34

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!

Thimplum · « **Reply #9 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:38:31 »

Quote from: lcs on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:35:39

Quote from: Thimplum on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:26:34
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!

lcs · « **Reply #10 on:** Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:39:16 »

Quote from: Thimplum on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:38:31

Quote from: lcs on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:35:39
Quote from: Thimplum on Tue, 03 September 2013, 20:26:34
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

nuclearsandwich · « **Reply #11 on:** Wed, 04 September 2013, 11:01:49 »

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.

divito · « **Reply #12 on:** Wed, 04 September 2013, 14:54:16 »

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.

wiredPANDA · « **Reply #13 on:** Wed, 04 September 2013, 15:14:20 »

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!

pushcx · « **Reply #14 on:** Wed, 04 September 2013, 15:46:00 »

For Firefox users, 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.

loadstar81 · « **Reply #15 on:** Sun, 08 September 2013, 14:33:50 »

Yes!!! I started to use Vimium about 6 months ago and it has changed my life.

kenmai9 · « **Reply #16 on:** Sun, 08 September 2013, 14:40:43 »

I just installed vimium and navigated to this page without using my mouse.. I could get used to this. Thanks for sharing!!

tipo33 · « **Reply #17 on:** Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:31:00 »

wow. I just installed it. I love it.

inlikeflynn · « **Reply #18 on:** Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:43:43 »

Also just installed it and its a great add on!

need to find something like this for the rest of the OS now

Latin00032 · « **Reply #19 on:** Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:59:59 »

I would think something like this already exists for most operating systems.

Technically, windows already has a bunch of shortcuts through the keyboard.

terrpn · « **Reply #20 on:** Wed, 11 September 2013, 08:42:43 »

just read the thread

and installed it

very nice..........

Thimplum · « **Reply #21 on:** Wed, 11 September 2013, 09:18:38 »

Quote from: inlikeflynn on Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:43:43

need to find something like this for the rest of the OS now

#ratpoison

pushcx · « **Reply #22 on:** Wed, 11 September 2013, 10:06:38 »

Quote from: Thimplum on Wed, 11 September 2013, 09:18:38

Quote from: inlikeflynn on Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:43:43
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.

lcs · « **Reply #23 on:** Wed, 11 September 2013, 10:07:09 »

No qtile love here?

mkawa · « **Reply #24 on:** Wed, 11 September 2013, 12:09:52 »

vimium is quite cool

Thimplum · « **Reply #25 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 11:58:52 »

It's too bad that there's no Vimperator for Chrome.

jwaz · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:21:17 »

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.

lcs · « **Reply #27 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:55:56 »

Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:21:17

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.

jwaz · « **Reply #28 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:05:34 »

Quote from: lcs on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:55:56

Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:21:17
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

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

lcs · « **Reply #29 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:06:47 »

Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:05:34

Quote from: lcs on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:55:56
Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:21:17
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

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

Overcome your laziness!

jwaz · « **Reply #30 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:15:10 »

Quote from: lcs on Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:06:47

Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 13:05:34
Quote from: lcs on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:55:56
Quote from: jwaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 12:21:17
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

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 Overcome your laziness!

* jwaz begrudgingly goes to setup Vimium

TimIsABat · « **Reply #31 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 15:09:36 »

I am trying this right now. Trying to configure it for Colemak. It will be interesting to learn this.

hashbaz · « **Reply #32 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 15:14:28 »

Might be worth googling for Colemak vim mappings. I'm sure they exist -- the intersection of Colemakers and vimmers is probably large.

TimIsABat · « **Reply #33 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 15:36:03 »

Quote from: hashbaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 15:14:28

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

Lanx · « **Reply #34 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 20:15:23 »

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.

hashbaz · « **Reply #35 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 20:53:41 »

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.)

lcs · « **Reply #36 on:** Thu, 12 September 2013, 21:07:01 »

Quote from: hashbaz on Thu, 12 September 2013, 20:53:41

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.

Clicky · « **Reply #37 on:** Fri, 13 September 2013, 13:12:17 »

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.

Altis · « **Reply #38 on:** Sun, 15 September 2013, 21:53:32 »

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.

TimIsABat · « **Reply #39 on:** Sun, 15 September 2013, 22:15:06 »

Quote from: Altis on Sun, 15 September 2013, 21:53:32

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.

evolveS · « **Reply #40 on:** Mon, 16 September 2013, 17:04:15 »

As a laptop user trying to avoid the temperamental Synaptic touchpad, I love this. Thanks for sharing!!

wuqe · « **Reply #41 on:** Mon, 20 January 2014, 12:54:24 »

Quote from: Lanx on Thu, 12 September 2013, 20:15:23

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!

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Author Topic: Vimium is Amazing (Read 7657 times)