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Vim shortcuts in the browser using Vimperator

I believe I’ve taken the ‘keyboard shortcuts’ thing to the next level – using Vimperator, I’ve now got “Vim-style” keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. I can open tabs, search in Google, and navigate websites without using the mouse. And it really is faster – except if a page has a ton of links (>300). The only bug I’ve found is that :o pen doesn’t work with keyword shortcuts (ie “:open wp Test” does a Google search for wp Test instead of opening the Wikipedia page for test)

One of the things I did do though, was use set guioptions=mT, because I use other toolbar buttons like the del.icio.us bookmark button, and I suspect it’s less confusing for other people to not have an address bar

Written by Paul Betts

August 1st, 2007 at 11:40 pm

Posted in Programming