Vim Vixen is a Firefox add-on which allows you to navigate with keyboard on the browser. Firefox started to support WebExtensions API and will stop supporting add-ons using legacy APIs from version 57. For this reason, many legacy add-ons do not work on Firefox 57. Vim Vixen is a new choice for Vim users since Vim Vixen uses the WebExtensions API.
The key-maps are configurable in the add-ons preferences by navigating to about:addons and selecting "Extensions".
The default mappings are as follows:
- :: open console
- o, t, w: open a page in current tab, new tab, or new window
- O, T, W: similar to o, t, w, but that contains current URL
- b: Select tabs by URL or title
- a: add current page to the bookmarks
- !d: delete pinned tab
- u: reopen close tab
- r: reload current tab
- R: reload current tab without cache
- f: start following links in the page in the current tab
- F: start following links in the page in new tabs
- H: go back in history
- L: go forward in history
- [[, ]]: find prev or next links and open it
- gu: go to parent directory
- gU: go to root directory
- gi: focus first input
- y: copy URL in current tab
- p: open clipbord's URL in current tab
- P: open clipbord's URL in new tab
- Shift+Esc: enable or disable the add-on in current tab.
- /: start to find a keyword in the page
- n: find next keyword in the page
- N: find prev keyword in the page
- gf: view page source
Vim Vixen provides a console for ex-style commands similar to Vimperator.
Open the console with :. Or start it with initial values using o, t, or w.
The :open command operates two different ways, depending on the parameter.
When the parameter is a URL, that URL is opened in the current tab.
:open http://github.com/ueokande
Otherwise, the current tab will open a search page with the supplied string (defaults to Google).
:open How to contribute to Vim-Vixen
To use a search engine other than the default, specify which search engine to use as the first parameter.
:open yahoo How to contribute to Vim-Vixen
To adjust the search engine default and add/remove search engines, see the search engines section.
Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in new tab.
Close the current tab.
Close a certain tab.
Close tabs matches with keywords.
Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in new window.
Select tabs by URL or title matched by keywords.
:set command can set properties on console.
Enable/disable smooth scroll.
:set smoothscroll " enable smooth scroll
:set nosmoothscroll " disable smooth scroll
Set hint characters
:set hintchars=0123456789
Open a new tab on adjacent of the current tab.
:set noadjacenttab " open a tab at last
:set adjacenttab " open a tab adjacently
Vim Vixen supports search by search engines like Google and Yahoo.
You can configure search engines, including the default search engine, in the add-ons preferences.
The URLs specified in "engines" must contain a {}-placeholder, which will be
replaced with the search keyword parameters of the command.
{
"search": {
"default": "google",
"engines": {
"google": "https://google.com/search?q={}",
"yahoo": "https://search.yahoo.com/search?p={}",
"bing": "https://www.bing.com/search?q={}",
"duckduckgo": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={}",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/search?q={}",
"wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={}"
}
}
}The blacklist allows you to disable the plugin for certain pages by URL patterns.
For instance, when you describe "*.slack.com", the plugin is disabled on any Slack rooms.
In addition, you can also specify path patterns, such as "example.com/mail/*".
{
"blacklist": [
"*.slack.com",
"example.com/mail/*"
]
}You can toggle Vim Vixen between disabled and enabled with shift + Esc.
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