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

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 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.

{
  "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