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Using Vimperator to browse the Web

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.

Matthias Günther

February 05, 2014
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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/[email protected]/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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