Vimium for Chrome

[Jonathan Lahijani]

Has anyone used the Vimium extension for Chrome?

Over the past few days, I've been working on some productivity hacks and part of that included relying less on the mouse for basic tasks.  I've never been a true Linux user or one who uses Vim, but I gave this extension a shot after a few days, it's very liberating to be able to browse websites and control Chrome (especially manipulating tabs) entirely with the keyboard!

I can see myself using vintage mode for Sublime in the near future.  Maybe also the ability to navigate my file manager (xyplorer) with keyboard shortcuts (or just start using the command line a lot more often).

Check it out:

http://vimium.github.io/

[Craig]

Many moons ago (pre-Chrome) I used Firefox as my main browser. I enabled functionality (in about:config I think) which allowed the focusing of links using the keyboard. So you would press a key, start typing the text of a link on the page, and it would focus it so you could activate it by pressing Enter (Sort of like Ctrl+F but for links only).

That was brilliant and I used it a lot, and I have never been able to find something like that for Chrome. This looks like a perfect replacement for that though, so thanks very much for finding and sharing

[netcarver]

@jlahijani

Happy vim and Vimium extension user here. (If I remember correctly, there is a similar vim-keybinding plugin for firefox too called "vimperator" but I've never used it.)

If you really start enjoying the mouse-free experience, there are other areas you could look into too. For now, I'll only mention tmux - which I find totally amazing.