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I love vimum, use it myself, but my biggest gripe with it (also half-addressed in the article) is that sites with good power-user focused keyboard shortcuts bui

by Sodman 6y ago

I love vimum, use it myself, but my biggest gripe with it (also half-addressed in the article) is that sites with good power-user focused keyboard shortcuts built-in are almost always going to beat a generic plugin like vimium. So you're left with choosing one of two compromise options: 1) Ignore the nice app-native keyboard shortcuts and just use vimium everywhere (Frustrating when single-key shortcuts in the app are multiple drop-down menu clicks with vimium) 2) Disable Vimium on shortcut-rich apps, but deal with the inconsistencies. (Eg clicking on the link in the body of an e-mail in gmail now needs a mouse again) I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.

wcoenen 6y ago
> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too. I thought that was what "insert mode" was used for. Hit i to go into insert mode, ESC to get out.
- Sodman 6y ago
  As a daily vim (editor) user, I had no idea that's what insert mode did in this context! I had never used it in vimium before. Thank you!!!
- _ikke_ 6y ago
  Yes, exactly. It also allows you to specify keys that it should ignore per site (so that the webapp always receive them), or even completely disable vimium for a site (or just specific pages on a site). By default, it's not active on gmail for example.
bovine3dom 6y ago
> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too. Tridactyl has this, bound to ctrl-v by default. Implementation is here [1] if anyone wants to try to add it to Vimium. [1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f143732f2dabd32b08dabf1e65a/src/parsers/nmode.ts#L1 https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14...
- blue_potato 6y ago
  For a escaping a single keypress in Vimium, you can use a mapping like map , passNextKey I think it's mapped to `I` by default.

by Sodman 6y ago

wcoenen 6y ago

> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too. I thought that was what "insert mode" was used for. Hit i to go into insert mode, ESC to get out.

Sodman 6y ago
As a daily vim (editor) user, I had no idea that's what insert mode did in this context! I had never used it in vimium before. Thank you!!!
_ikke_ 6y ago
Yes, exactly. It also allows you to specify keys that it should ignore per site (so that the webapp always receive them), or even completely disable vimium for a site (or just specific pages on a site). By default, it's not active on gmail for example.

bovine3dom 6y ago

> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too. Tridactyl has this, bound to ctrl-v by default. Implementation is here [1] if anyone wants to try to add it to Vimium. [1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f143732f2dabd32b08dabf1e65a/src/parsers/nmode.ts#L1 https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14...

blue_potato 6y ago
For a escaping a single keypress in Vimium, you can use a mapping like map , passNextKey I think it's mapped to `I` by default.