# Vim Vixen 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. and Vim Vixen is a new choise for Vim users since Vim Vixen uses WebExtensions API ## Basic usage ### Key-maps The key-maps are configurable in preferences of the add-ons. The default mapping are shown in the following. #### 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 #### Scrolling - j, k: scroll vertically - h, l: scroll horizontally - Ctrl+U, Ctrl+D: scroll pages by half of screen - Ctrl+B, Ctrl+F: scroll pages by a screen - 0, $: scroll a page to leftmost/rightmost - gg, G: scroll to top/bottom #### Tabs - d: delete current tab - u: reopen close tab - K, J: select prev or next tab - r: reload current tab - R: reload current tab without cache ### Navigation - f: start following links in the page - H: go back in histories - L: go forward in histories - [[, ]]: find prev or next links and open it - gu: go to parent directory - gU: go to root directory #### Misc - zi, zo: zoom-in/zoom-out - zz: Set default zoom level - y: copy URL in current tab - Shift+Esc: enable of disable the add-on in current tab. ### Console commands Vim-Vixen provides a console likes Vimperator's one. The console is opened by : key or keys to open console with initial value likes o, t, or w keys. #### `:open` command Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in current tab, When specified parameter is formatted in URL as following, URL is opened to current tab. ``` :open http://github.com/ueokande ``` If specified parameters are keywords as following, open new tab searched by the keywords with search engines (default to Google). ``` :open How to contribute to Vim-Vixen ``` You can specify search engines in first parameter. For the default of search engines, see [search engines](#search-engines) section. ``` :open yahoo How to contribute to Vim-Vixen ``` #### `:tabopen` command Open a URL or search keywords by search engine in new tab. #### `: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. ### Search engines Vim-Vixen support to search by search engines such as google or yahoo. But the engines are independent on browsers' because of there is a limitation of WebExtensions. You can configure search engines and default search engine in preferences of the add-ons. The URLs specified in `"engines"` must contain a {}-placeholder, which will replaced with keywords in parameters of the command. ```json { "keymaps": { "...": "..." }, "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={}" } } } ``` ## Licence MIT