What Was Lacking to Vimium: the 'm' command

https://github.com/louischatriot/M-command

by louischatriot • 14 years ago

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ibotty• 14 years ago

i read the description and it mentions a vim M command. i did not know this one. it is pretty boring. then i figured maybe it's about marks, i.e. the 'm' command. now that is nice. i use firefox though...

leif• 14 years ago

you want pentadactyl. it's better than vimium anyway.

samineru• 14 years ago

Then lucky you! You get to use the titannically more powerful pentadactyl: http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/.

ch0wn• 14 years ago

That is what happened in my brain, as well. I had to actually type it on my keyboard in order to understand what it does. Vim is just too coupled to my muscle memory.

sethish• 14 years ago

This is nice. I might give Vimium another shot. Vimperator / Pentadactyl for Firefox implemented M as bookmarks if I remember correctly.

I see that lots of people are mentioning Pentadactyl. Vimium is a lightweight set of vim-like bindings for navigation in Chrome. Pentadactyl is a fairly major UI re-implementation of Firefox. You have a message window, and a : command area at the bottom of the screen url bar off by default). I think that Pentadactyl does a pretty good job of implementing the vim idiom for firefox, but unfortunately there are lots of places where the vim idiom gets in the way of people who have different navigation idioms for their websites. I found the escape keys to be cumbersome. Vimium implements a lot less of the vim idiom but it is very nice if only to get j/k C-d/C-b navigation. Overall I didn't find Vimium to be useful enough to be worth the work arounds I had to use. Pentadactyl, was useful enough to use full time.

At various points in my computer usage, I've dedicated Firefox to Pentadactyl, and left my Chromium unadorned. Now that you mention it, I'll probably set that up again.

What Was Lacking to Vimium: the 'm' command

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