# Vim Vixen
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Vim Vixen is a Firefox add-on which allows you to navigate with the 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.
## Basic usage
### Key-maps
The key-maps are configurable in the add-ons preferences by navigating to `about:addons` and selecting "Extensions".
The default mappings are as follows:
#### Console
- :: 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
See [console commands](#console-commands) section for more detailed description
#### Tabs
- d: delete tab
- !d: delete pinned tab
- u: reopen close tab
- r: reload current tab
- R: reload current tab without cache
- K or gT: select previous tab
- J or gt: select next tab
- g0: select first tab
- g$: select last tab
- Ctrl+6: open previously selected tab
- zp: pin tab
- zd: duplicate tab
#### Scrolling
- k: scroll up
- j: scroll down
- h: scroll left
- l: scroll right
- Ctrl+U: scroll up for a half page
- Ctrl+D: scroll down for a half page
- Ctrl+B: scroll up for a whole page
- Ctrl+F: scroll down for a whole page
- gg: scroll to top of a page
- G: scroll to bottom of a page
- 0: scroll to the leftmost part of a page
- $: scroll to the rightmost part of a page
- m: set a mark from current position
- ': jump to position by the mark
Lowercase alphabet mark (`[a-z]`) stores position on the current tab. Upper alphabet and numeric mark (`[A-Z0-9]`) stores position and tab.
#### Zoom
- zi: zoom in
- zo: zoom out
- zz: zoom neutral (reset)
#### Navigation
- 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
Plugin can be configured to follow links in new tabs in background instead of
switching to a new tab immediately. To do this you need to update config file:
change `"background"` property of `"follow.start"` action to true:
```json
{
"keymaps": {
"F": { "type": "follow.start", "newTab": true, "background": true },
}
}
```
#### Misc
- y: copy URL in current tab
- p: open clipboard's URL in current tab
- P: open clipboard'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
### Console commands
Vim Vixen provides a console for `ex`-style commands similar to Vimperator.
Open the console with :. Or start it with initial values using
o/O, t/T,
or w/W.
#### `:open` command
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](#search-engines) section.
#### `:tabopen` command
Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in new tab.
#### `:quit` or `:q` command
Close the current tab.
#### `:quitall` or `:qa` command
Close all tabs.
#### `:bdelete` command
Close a certain tab.
You can add `!` at the end of the command to close tab even if it is pinned:
```
:bdelete!
```
#### `:bdeletes` command
Close tabs matches with keywords.
You can add `!` at the end of the command to close even pinned tabs:
```
:bdeletes!
```
#### `:winopen` command
Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in new window.
#### `:buffer` command
Select tabs by URL or title matched by keywords.
#### `:addbookmark` command
Create a bookmark from the current URL.
```
:addbookmark My bookmark title
```
The key map a is a convenient way to create a bookmark from the
current page. That shows `:addbookmark` with a title from the current page into
console.
#### `:set` command
`:set` command can temporary override properties using console. See
[properties](#properties) section for more detailed description of available
properties.
### Properties
Plugin supports configurable properties which can be configured in JSON
settings:
```json
{
"properties": {
"complete": "sbh"
}
}
```
Properties can be temporary overwritten by `:set` command in console.
List of available properties you can find below:
#### `smoothscroll` property
Enable/disable smooth scroll.
```
:set smoothscroll " enable smooth scroll
:set nosmoothscroll " disable smooth scroll
```
#### `hintchars` property
Set hint characters
```
:set hintchars=0123456789
```
#### `complete` property
Set completion items on `open`, `tabopen` `winopen` commands.
The allowed value is character sequence of `s`, `b`, or `h`.
Hit Tab or Shift+Tab to Select an item from the completion list.
Each character presents as following:
- `s`: search engines
- `b`: bookmark items
- `h`: history items.
```
:set complete=sbh
```
### Search engines
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.
```json
{
"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={}"
}
}
}
```
### Blacklist
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/*"`.
```json
{
"blacklist": [
"*.slack.com",
"example.com/mail/*"
]
}
```
You can toggle Vim Vixen between disabled and enabled with
shift+Esc.
## Licence
MIT