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Use vim motions in text / url boxes not working #3578

Open davehouser1 opened 4 years ago

davehouser1 commented 4 years ago

I am using the Vimium-FF plugin for Firefox.

Problem: When I am in any text box I would like to type like I would in vim. Allowing vim motions, visual mode, and inserting. I would think I could select "escape" then use motions like h,j,k,l,b,e,w etc. to move through the text in said box or url box, then select i, CTRL-A, or CTRL-I to put myself into insert mode to make changes.

Trouble shooting: I read the documentation, I see there is an insert and visual mode. I don't think I am using them correctly, or they are used for different purpose then described above. When in "insert mode" i see a notification in the bottom right of the browser that shows I am in insert mode, however nothing new happens, same with visual mode, and carrot mode.

gdh1995 commented 4 years ago

Vimium once had a VisualEdit mode but it has been removed for years. So A better way is to use another extension to do VIM-like editing.

You may try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wasavi/dgogifpkoilgiofhhhodbodcfgomelhe , which is recommended in #1961, as I said in #3405.