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author | Shin'ya Ueoka <ueokande@i-beam.org> | 2017-10-10 17:35:02 +0900 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-10-10 17:35:02 +0900 |
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Merge pull request #30 from ueokande/usage-in-readme
README
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@@ -1,56 +1,122 @@ # Vim Vixen -An Firefox add-ons works with WebExtensions, insipired by [Vimperator](https://github.com/vimperator). - -## Background - -### Firefox will stop supporting legacy add-ons - -Firefox will support only add-ons using WebExtensions API since version 57, and -plugins based on legacy APIs will be unavailable. Vim Vixen is new solution to -create Vim-like Firefox. - -### Vimimum - -[Vimium](https://github.com/philc/vimium) is a Chrome extension which able to -navigate pages in Google Chrome/Chromium. Vimium also started to suppprt on -Firefox by WebExtensions API. - -## TODO - -- [ ] open command - - [x] open a link - - [x] search by keywords with engined - - [x] complete URLs from history - - [ ] complete keywords for search -- [x] tabs navigation - - [x] select a tabs by keyboard - - [x] close/reopen a tab - - [x] reload a page -- [ ] buffer control - - [x] select a tab by :buffer command - - [x] buffer completion - - [ ] list buffers - - [ ] select buffer last selected -- [ ] discover a content - - [x] scroll a page by keyboard - - [x] zoom-in/zoom-out - - [ ] find a keyword in the page -- [ ] navigations - - [ ] yank/paste page - - [x] pagenation - - [x] open parent page - - [x] open root page -- [ ] hints - - [x] open a link - - [x] open a link in new tab - - [x] activate input form -- [ ] misc - - [x] configurable keymaps - - [x] search engine settings - - [x] .rc file - - [ ] other commands in Ex mode -- [ ] supporting Google Chrome/Chromium +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 + +- `k`,`k`: scroll vertically +- `h`,`l`: scroll horizontally +- `<C-U>`,`<C-D>`: scroll pages by half of screen +- `<C-B>`,`<C-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/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/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](#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 |