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first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memc

by pizza 5y ago

first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memcpy info into a form in the year of our lord 2022. i think my ideal browser would have a ui like tmux actually if we could go back to using web technologies to build browsers (reminiscent of xul) maybe we should try to build browsers using wasm - then everyone under the sun can have their own contributions to make. xmonadic firefox, anyone?

fragmede 5y ago
Right click on tab... duplicate. Managing the windows is left as an exercise for the reader (but an app like Rectangle will help).
- pizza 5y ago
  Fair enough, and it's what I do currently - but the minimum set of inputs for this action should just be - move cursor to split point (in fact this should be optional and we just default to mid-way split) - input io event (e.g. shift + double click on a non-interactive page region) as opposed to the much greater mental complexity of manual window management + distraction of OS wm animations, delay - I can only remember 7 things at once, after all, and if I do manual wm management I run the danger of seeing some other app that I had open and it leads to another 45 minute distraction from what I was trying to do :)
cesnja 5y ago
I think Vimperator used to have `marks` support, allowing you to jump to a specific part of a webpage you defined earlier. Webextension alternatives haven't reached feature parity (yet), the one I use doesn't offer this functionality.
srcreigh 5y ago
Any reason to do this instead of multiple windows in a tiling WM?
- pizza 5y ago
  It should be faster to repaint the view in the browser as well as extensible/configurable and hotkeyable, and plus if it’s browser native then it could proportionally adjust the splits when the os wm resizes it as well
knoebber 5y ago
Have you tried qutebrowser?
- pizza 5y ago
  hmm no I haven't. looks kinda neat

by pizza 5y ago

fragmede 5y ago

Right click on tab... duplicate. Managing the windows is left as an exercise for the reader (but an app like Rectangle will help).

pizza 5y ago
Fair enough, and it's what I do currently - but the minimum set of inputs for this action should just be - move cursor to split point (in fact this should be optional and we just default to mid-way split) - input io event (e.g. shift + double click on a non-interactive page region) as opposed to the much greater mental complexity of manual window management + distraction of OS wm animations, delay - I can only remember 7 things at once, after all, and if I do manual wm management I run the danger of seeing some other app that I had open and it leads to another 45 minute distraction from what I was trying to do :)

cesnja 5y ago

I think Vimperator used to have `marks` support, allowing you to jump to a specific part of a webpage you defined earlier. Webextension alternatives haven't reached feature parity (yet), the one I use doesn't offer this functionality.

srcreigh 5y ago

Any reason to do this instead of multiple windows in a tiling WM?

pizza 5y ago
It should be faster to repaint the view in the browser as well as extensible/configurable and hotkeyable, and plus if it’s browser native then it could proportionally adjust the splits when the os wm resizes it as well

knoebber 5y ago

Have you tried qutebrowser?

pizza 5y ago
hmm no I haven't. looks kinda neat