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Vim Keybindings in Firefox Using Tridactyl

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Tricks …

Useful Firefox Add-ons

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  1. Tridactyl

  2. Vimium

  3. Pentadactyl

A more powerful but complex alternative to Vimperator. The main focus of Vimperator is on usability, simplicity, stability and design while still preserving a powerful, modal …

Navigate Chrome Browser Like a Pro Using Vimium

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Customize Key Mappings

  1. Open Vimium Options.

  2. Paste your customized key mappings into "Custom key mappings". Below is an example of my customized key mapping configuration.

    map d removeTab
map u …

Vim as a Universal Editor

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  • FireNVim

    • Use NeoVim to edit in any textbox in browsers.

  • vscode-neovim

    • Use NeoVim as the editor in Visual Studio Code.

Tips on "sed"

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Alternatives

  1. sad is a simpler alternative to sed. sad is implemented in Rust and has built-in integration of fzf, which makes it easy to visually inspect changes.

  2. For complicated text substitutions …