[lug] Re: ViMozilla

[David Morris]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 06:04:18PM -0400, Benji Fisher wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Laurent Humblet wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the right place to send this email but I'm sure that
> > I'll be pointed to the right direction if it's not the case.
> > 
> > Also, I decided to post this first in the Vim developer mailing list rather
> > than in the Mozilla/Firefox plugins section for the simple reason that I
> > believe that the Vim developers will know much better what to do and will be
> > much more enthusiastic about this project than the general Mozilla plugins
> > developers.
> > 
> > So here is the story: I use Firefox for a while now and I use Vim for more
> > than a year.  So, one day while reading a webpage, I wanted to scroll down
> > and naturally, my finger went to 'j' and of course, nothing happened.  So I
> > was thinking : "Wouldn't it be great if I could navigate the web using the
> > Vim shortcuts?  Wouldn't it be great to use "hjkl" or CTRL+F/CTRL+B to move
> > within a web page?  Wouldn't it be great to use /{pattern}/ to search the
> > page rather than use CTRL+F?".  And the idea of a ViMozilla plugin started.
> > As Mozilla is open source and has this plugin system that is quite sexy, I
> > just thought that it would make sense.

I actually have periodically run up against the same
tendancy.

You can actually get this partially setup just by setting
key bindings in one of the mozilla configuration files.  I
got 'j' and 'k' setup for vertical scrolling and 'h' and 'l'
setup for navigating links (follow link / go back).

I don't have it setup anymore so I cannot give you the exact
code that did this, but a bit of creativity in Google will
find it....thats how I found it after all.

--David