Using Vimperator to browse the Web

I switched over to Vimperator one month ago and would like to show you shortcuts and how you can configure it.

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1. Vimperator
   Using your browser is fun again
   Matthias G端nther
   (@wikimatze)
   

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2. This is how I see it
   

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3. History
   2007 released by Martin
   Stubenschrott
   is a fork from Conkeror - a
   browser with Emacs like
   keybindings
   distributed via Vimperator
   Labs
   

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4. What makes it so cool?
   hint mode: clickable
   elements available by
   numbers (easymotion)
   completion: bookmarks,
   manuals, commands
   scripts: custom plugins
   

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5. Navigating
   

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6. Navigating I
   j,k,h,l … scroll movement
   , … scroll
   one page down/up
   ZZ … quit and save window
   for next session
   

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7. Navigating II
   ZQ … quite window without
   saving
   d … close the active tab
   u, U … open a previously
   closed tab
   

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8. Navigating III
   :b … search the
   buffer after the specified
   word
   gi … focus last input field
   zi, zo … zoom in, zoom out
   

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9. Editing
   

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10. Editing I
    :open … open the
    URL in the current window
    :tabopen … will open
    a new tab
    

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11. Editing II
    :tabonly … close all tabs
    except the current one
    :history … recently visited
    URLs
    

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12. Editing III
    :pageinfo … shows
    encoding, atom feed, …
    :set all … print all options
    

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13. Editing IV
    :addons … opens firefox
    addon page
    :help F1 … opens the build
    in help
    

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14. Editing V
    y … yank the current
    location into clipboard
    r, R … reload the current
    page with/skipping the cache
    

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15. Vanilla
    

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16. Vanilla I
    y … yanks the current URL
    into the clipboard
    … opens Gvim to
    create text for the input field
    

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17. Vanilla II
    :jumps … show the whole
    browsing path of the current
    tab
    , … move
    backward/forward in the
    browser history
    

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18. Vanilla II
    :gf … toggle between
    rendered and source view
    :gF … open the source in
    your preferred editor
    :view … view the
    source of the current
    document or the given URL
    

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19. Hint
    

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20. Hint Mode I
    f … opens motion where you
    can click on certain things in
    the current tab
    F … like f except that it will
    open the link in a new tab
    

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21. Hint Mode II
    ;
    … opens extended find
    method
    ; … focus a link and hover it
    s … save destination link
    y … yank its destination
    location
    Y … copy text description
    of link
    

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22. Plugins
    put them in \~/.vimperator/
    plugin
    but I couldn’t find useful
    one :)
    

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23. Pic Credits I
    This is how I see it by
    Kris Delcourte: https://
    www.flickr.com/photos/
    krisdelcourte/8546645402
    Navigating by Eric Norris:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/
    sfxeric/4594050509/
    

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24. Pic Credits II
    Editing by Laura Ritchie:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/
    lauraritchie/7874958188/
    Vanilla by Brian
    Boucheron: http://
    www.flickr.com/
    photos/88138723@N00/7820
    089742
    

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25. About
    def talks
    "wikimatze.de/talks"
    end
    def twitter
    @wikimatze
    end
    def book
    "padrinobook.com"
    end
    def github
    "matthias-guenther"
    end
    

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