Vi Enabled Firefox
By admin on Sep 14, 2008 in firefox plugin
Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in.
- Vim-like keybindings (h,j,k,l,gg,G,0,$,ZZ,<C-f>,etc.)
- Ex commands (:quit,
pen www.foo.com, …) - Tab completion available for all commands with support for ‘longest’ matching when set in ‘wildmode’
- Hit-a-hint like navigation of links (start with ‘f’ to follow a link)
- Advanced completion of bookmark and history URLs (searching also in title, not only URL)
- Vim-like statusline with a wget-like progress bar
- Minimal GUI (easily hide useless menubar and toolbar with :set guioptions=)
- Ability to :source JavaScript files, and to use a ~/.vimperatorrc file with syntax highlighting if you install vimperator.vim
- Easy quick searches (:open foo will search for “foo” in google, pen ebay terminator will search for “terminator” on ebay) with support for Firefox keyword bookmarks and search engines
- Count supported for many commands (3<C-o> will go back 3 pages)
- Beep on errors
- Marks support (ma to set mark ‘a’ on a webpage, ‘a to go there)
- QuickMarks support (quickly go to previously marked web pages with go{a-zA-Z0-9})
- :map and :command support (and feedkeys() for script writers)
- :time support for profiling
- Move the text cursor and select text with vim keys and a visual mode.
- External editor support
- Macros to replay key strokes
- AutoCommands to execute action on certain events
- A comprehensive help file, explaining all commands, mappings and settings.
