Tips on Vimperator

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Confliction with Some Webpages

Some web applications (e.g., Google apps, MS Apps, RStudio, etc.) have their own keybindings, and they do not cowork with Vimperator. Having Vimperator enabled on these web apps/pages make both fail to work. Please refer to Selectively Disable Vimperator on Webpages on how to selectively disable Vimperator on some web apps/pages.

Enable/Disable Vimperator

Press Shift + ESC to temporarily disables Vimperator. Press it again or press insert to enable Vimperator.

Tab Navigation

1. gt or ctrl + n: go to the next tab

2. gT: go to the previous tab

3. d: close the current tab

4. u: reopen last closed tab

5. o: open a new page in the current tab

6. t: open a new page in a new tab

Page Navigation

1. ctrl + l: focus on the search/url bar

2. when using f/F for navigation, you can also use words in the link that you want to navigate to instead of numbers. This make things very convenient.

3. use :hardcopy to print a web page

Zomm In/Out

1. zi: zoom in

2. zo: zoom out

3. zz: reset zoom

Text Manipulation

1. gi: goto the textbox on the page and focus on it

2. y: yanks the current link to the clipboard

3. c, v

4. :bma -f=toolbar/blogs -k=...

5. use :! to run command, but how can I can run user-defined command?

6. you can define your own vimperator command to simply important jobs ...

7. or alternatively you can do: o or t and then ctrl + v and then edit on the link ... cool!!!

Links

1. http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/articles/vimperator/

2. http://superuser.com/questions/16286/vimperator-and-ctrlk

3. http://sheet.shiar.nl/vimperator

Questions

1. sometimes no link, but can click (button, etc.), how to emulate a mouse left/right click even in vimperator?