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I loved Vimperator and switched to Tridactyl as soon as Firefox forced me to. It's great, but I am currently missing 2 features. First, in Vimperator you could

by nextos 8y ago

I loved Vimperator and switched to Tridactyl as soon as Firefox forced me to. It's great, but I am currently missing 2 features. First, in Vimperator you could tab complete URLs with the open command and then edit the URL. Second, you could build lots useful commands with Vimperator. I had one for flipping the proxy to a SOCKS one, and another command to do site-specific searches with tab completion. That is, type s, write and/or tab complete a URL and type the search. I would then submit a query to Google with the appropriate site:url operator. Are any of these possible in Tridactyl right now? I haven't been able to reproduce any. It's also annoying that lots of special Firefox pages, like unable to connect, steal the focus from Tridactyl and you need to use actual shortcuts from Firefox to find your way out. It kind of breaks the flow, but I understand this is a limitation imposed by Firefox with their new plugin architecture.

bovine3dom 8y ago
For editing a URL - press space to fill the command line with a highlighted completion. Custom commands are possible with `alias`, `js -p`, and `composite`. All are documented with `help [command]`, but there's probably room for improvement. We haven't bothered to integrate proxy controls but I think it's possible. No-one has asked.
- Legogris 8y ago
  I haven't been able to figure out how to do keymaps with fixed arguments for commands. What I specifically want to do is to have something like f/F (open hinted URLs) and/or t/T for opening URLs in specific containers. A lot of times when I open a link I have a couple of containers that I often want to open the link in.
  - bovine3dom 8y ago
    You probably want `bind t fillcmdline tabopen -c [mycontainer]`, and `bind F hint -W tabopen -c [mycontainer]`, with hopefully obvious equivalents for T and f. You can always do `bind [key-sequence]` with no argument to find out what something is bound to.
    - Legogris 8y ago
      Thanks, going to try this :)

by nextos 8y ago

bovine3dom 8y ago

For editing a URL - press space to fill the command line with a highlighted completion. Custom commands are possible with `alias`, `js -p`, and `composite`. All are documented with `help [command]`, but there's probably room for improvement. We haven't bothered to integrate proxy controls but I think it's possible. No-one has asked.

Legogris 8y ago
I haven't been able to figure out how to do keymaps with fixed arguments for commands. What I specifically want to do is to have something like f/F (open hinted URLs) and/or t/T for opening URLs in specific containers. A lot of times when I open a link I have a couple of containers that I often want to open the link in.
- bovine3dom 8y ago
  You probably want `bind t fillcmdline tabopen -c [mycontainer]`, and `bind F hint -W tabopen -c [mycontainer]`, with hopefully obvious equivalents for T and f. You can always do `bind [key-sequence]` with no argument to find out what something is bound to.
  - Legogris 8y ago
    Thanks, going to try this :)