OOPS: Re: [lug] Re: ViMozilla

[David Morris]

OOPS, this was intended for a different list....BAD fingers,
type what I mean, not what I think! ;)

--David


On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 07:00:50PM -0600, David Morris wrote:
> 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
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