# Vim Vixen
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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.
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
- <kbd>:</kbd>: open console
- <kbd>o</kbd>, <kbd>t</kbd>, <kbd>w</kbd>: open a page in current tab, new tab, or new window
- <kbd>O</kbd>, <kbd>T</kbd>, <kbd>W</kbd>: similar to <kbd>o</kbd>, <kbd>t</kbd>, <kbd>w</kbd>, but that contains current URL
- <kbd>b</kbd>: Select tabs by URL or title
- <kbd>a</kbd>: add current page to the bookmarks
See [console commands](#console-commands) section for more detailed description
#### Tabs
- <kbd>d</kbd>: delete tab
- <kbd>!</kbd><kbd>d</kbd>: delete pinned tab
- <kbd>u</kbd>: reopen close tab
- <kbd>r</kbd>: reload current tab
- <kbd>R</kbd>: reload current tab without cache
- <kbd>K</kbd> or <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>T</kbd>: select previous tab
- <kbd>J</kbd> or <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>t</kbd>: select next tab
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>0</kbd>: select first tab
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>$</kbd>: select last tab
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>6</kbd>: open previously selected tab
- <kbd>z</kbd><kbd>p</kbd>: pin tab
- <kbd>z</kbd><kbd>d</kbd>: duplicate tab
#### Scrolling
- <kbd>k</kbd>: scroll down
- <kbd>j</kbd>: scroll up
- <kbd>h</kbd>: scroll left
- <kbd>l</kbd>: scroll right
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>U</kbd>: scroll up for a half page
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd>: scroll down for a half page
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>B</kbd>: scroll up for a whole page
- <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd>: scroll down for a whole page
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>g</kbd>: scroll to top of a page
- <kbd>G</kbd>: scroll to bottom of a page
- <kbd>0</kbd>: scroll to the leftmost part of a page
- <kbd>$</kbd>: scroll to the rightmost part of a page
- <kbd>m</kbd>: set a mark from current position
- <kbd>'</kbd>: 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
- <kbd>z</kbd><kbd>i</kbd>: zoom in
- <kbd>z</kbd><kbd>o</kbd>: zoom out
- <kbd>z</kbd><kbd>z</kbd>: zoom neutral (reset)
#### Navigation
- <kbd>f</kbd>: start following links in the page in the current tab
- <kbd>F</kbd>: start following links in the page in new tabs
- <kbd>H</kbd>: go back in history
- <kbd>L</kbd>: go forward in history
- <kbd>[</kbd><kbd>[</kbd>, <kbd>]</kbd><kbd>]</kbd>: find prev or next links and open it
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>u</kbd>: go to parent directory
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>U</kbd>: go to root directory
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>i</kbd>: 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
- <kbd>y</kbd>: copy URL in current tab
- <kbd>p</kbd>: open clipbord's URL in current tab
- <kbd>P</kbd>: open clipbord's URL in new tab
- <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Esc</kbd>: enable or disable the add-on in current tab.
- <kbd>/</kbd>: start to find a keyword in the page
- <kbd>n</kbd>: find next keyword in the page
- <kbd>N</kbd>: find prev keyword in the page
- <kbd>g</kbd><kbd>f</kbd>: view page source
### Console commands
Vim Vixen provides a console for `ex`-style commands similar to Vimperator.
Open the console with <kbd>:</kbd>. Or start it with initial values using
<kbd>o</kbd>/<kbd>O</kbd>, <kbd>t</kbd>/<kbd>T</kbd>,
or <kbd>w</kbd>/<kbd>W</kbd>.
#### `: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 <kbd>a</kbd> is a contenient 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 <kbd>Tab</kbd> or <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd> 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
<kbd>shift</kbd>+<kbd>Esc</kbd>.
## Licence
MIT
