Questions tagged [vimperator]
Vimperator is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox that gives the browser a Vim-like user interface.
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How to leave frame-focus mode in Vimperator
I accidentally pressed ;f on GitHub and it shows only the frame created by the Octotree extension.
However, if I open the browser in private mode, it shows the full page. I know I could just kill the ...
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Bookmark without pop-up prompt in Mozilla Firefox
I usually bookmark pages pressing Ctrl-D but it pops up a prompt asking for confirmation or additional editing including assigning tags.
I used to to bookmark with A key of vimperator, but Vimperator ...
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Firefox Vimperator - dark theme makes the command line hard to see. Change using CSS?
I'm currently using Vimperator with the FT Deep Dark theme on Firefox 53.0 (32-bit), and the setup is excellent save for one nagging issue - the command line for Vimperator is black text on dark grey ...
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how to quickly switch to an already opened tab (buffer) in Vimperator
I tend to open a lot of tabs during my everyday browsing and I've newly switched to Vimperator. I found that you can use :buffer {number/keyword} to navigate to an already opened tab.
But I think it ...
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Vimperator Keybinding, Requires Additional Keypress
I'm really new to Vim/Vimscript, and I'm trying to configure my .vimperatorrc to execute the same as when I run :open google search-term.
From reading, it looks like I need nnoremap g :open google<...
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Vimperator tabopen not a vimperator command
For some reason Firefox's vimperator :tabopen command suddenly doesn't work. :open still works. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Show number of find matches
When searching for text on a webpage with Firefox, without Vimperator, each match is shown on the status bar as '1 of 9', '2 of 9', as each is highlighted.
When using Vimperator, no such detail is ...
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How to open the previous url from the history in a new tab in Vimperator
In normal Firefox, I can open the previous history item in a new tab by middle clicking the back button in the location bar.
Does Vimperator have a keyboard shortcut to do this?
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vimperator focus firefox built in search
Is there a keyboard shortcut to focus the built in search bar in the top right corner of Firefox?
I saw a similar question which suggested 'gi' but that's for focusing a textbox within a webpage.
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Adding "comma" in ignorekeys list in Vimperator
How can we add the comma character (,) in the except list of ignorekeys setting in vimperator?
I tried escaping it with backslash (\) but it didn't work:
:ignorekeys -except=:,/,\,,j,k
Is their ...
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How to select items in tab menu of Vimperator
After clicking t Vimperator shows up a tab window with Smart Completitions, and for example when typing addon it shows the URLs with the keyword on it.
What I want is to select the URL I want from ...
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Accessing tooltips with Vimperator
I use Navigation popups on Wikipedia which is very handy to not to jump over multiple articles opening them in new tabs.
It requires a mouseover action to display the short preview of the article.
I ...
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Firefox previous tab
Is it possible to go to the previously active open tab natively in Firefox or using Vimperator?
It is especially useful when pressing Ctrl+T to open a new tab and Firefox open it as the last tab, ...
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Mapping Keys to Commands in Vimperator
I want to close the current tab on clicking ww that is two minuscule w's sequentially
So I imagine I need to put in vimperatorrc a line similar to the following
map <ww> :tabclose<CR>
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escape from pdf files using vimperator
About a year ago I switched to gvim as my main text editor. In order get the same benefits when browsing, I installed vimperator. It is not perfect, but does a good job at replicating vim ...
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