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Add a mention of *caret* mode to the shortcuts (Vimium Help) page #2340

Open snth opened 8 years ago

snth commented 8 years ago

Hi,

First off let me say thank you for an absolutely awesome plugin - I couldn't use Chrome without it. I've been using it for years.

Until recently one thing that still required me to use the mouse was selecting and copying text. Looking on the help page I saw Visual mode mentioned but whenever I used it the selection would start at an arbitrary point and I could find no way to move the cursor around with the movement keys. Given the well thought out design of the rest off the plugin I thought there must be some way to do this and after quite a bit of searching I found some github issue discussions that eventually mentioned caret mode. Armed with caret mode I can now finally do away with the mouse completely, thank you!

I thought that perhaps you can just mention caret mode more prominently in the documentation? Perhaps give it its own section and heading on the Visual Mode page? Also, if it could be mentioned on the shortcuts page (Vimium Help page when pressing ? in normal mode) since "v c" effectively takes you to caret mode.

On the Visual Mode under Tips you could perhaps also mention that using Find Mode is a good way to navigate to the start of your intended selection. This might be obvious to some but I somehow didn't think of it until I read some of the Github issues.

Thanks again!

snth commented 8 years ago

I've added a description myself to the Visual Mode wiki page.

skfarhat commented 7 years ago

I had gone through the README several times without knowing of Caret Mode, it should be there I believe. Thank you!

datta-krupa commented 5 years ago

@smblott-github, Can a direct shortcut be added for caret browsing mode? This would act as a reference point while reading the text and We don't need to stumble upon on "how to get into caret mode". As it would show up in "?" help menu.

Related discussion: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/1642

alalfakawma commented 4 years ago

I wonder why this has not been added till now, it's literally one of the most useful commands out there when selecting text.

gabrielbeauchemin commented 3 years ago

I still don't understand in which way the caret mode is useful, so yes a documentation on that would be apprectiated!