If you like Vim, you should also check out Vimium - an extension, that enables Vim-like navigation in the browser. Never take your fingers off the home row!
Especially since apparently Wasavi is not a firefox plugin anymore apparently.
There's no anchor to "Firefox add-on" on the page and the firefox plugin search
turns up nothing.
Firenvim works in both Chrome and Firefox and you can harness the power of
neovim, so that's a plus.
Typing this from a neovim instance in firefox
Actually, the releases page on GitHub does provide an .xpi file for Firefox, and it seems to be working fine. I guess the missing link on the website/README is a mistake.
This looks very similar to shortcat https://shortcat.app/, can you tell me what your program offers that the other one (free, but also not OS) does not?
Major differences are that (1) Homerow does not show search results in a command palette fashion. YMMV but I prefer the UI to be minimalist. (2) you can disable search and have it work almost exactly like Vimium.
I would also like to note that the Shortcat dev plans on adding licensing. Homerow has licensing, but there's no blocks on features. So they are both "free" in the same way.
If you like Vimium, try qutebrowsers or Luakit, where keyboard is a first-class citizen that works everywhere and is not dependent on JS injection. May have a learning curve (took me about 3 days to get functional.)
Just to share my own experience of trying to make this my daily web driver, both these solutions are using webkit, and webkit behaviour is not exactly perfect and can be a real pain to update. Same issue with Nyxt, which I very much wanted to use. In the end I went for Trydactyl which give the best of both world: a web browser that works, with a decent ecosystem for extensions (lack of ublock is very quickly felt, even if yes there are some alternatives but... not as good and simple) and a powerful interface that you can mod to your needs, vim or emacs shortcut can be used.
They do use Blink (Chromium) internally, but it's my understanding that it is just bundled inside. I've run qutebrowser both as compiled and from source and not had any issues updating.
Qutebrowser includes its own adblocker, which must be activated once after install and works well enough.
It also supports both userscripts and python scripting. Although that takes more fiddling, there's a pretty healthy support community for it.
A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.
"Key feature", it is a great feature but it is "only" for editing with your editor of choice (vim,neovim,helix, etc.) right? Or am i missing something?
I think you've misunderstood, "native messaging" allows the tridactyl extension to interact with the filesystem and native applications: https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger
I've been using FireNvim for quite a while now to turn textareas into editors. I like that this extension doesn't actually require vim/nvim to be installed on the system, but that also makes it a bit weaker. If everything happens in the browser then we're left only with a subset of what's possible with a full vim experience (plus, the user's vim configuration won't apply)
> Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?
There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText
Ed: wasavi does enhance the text-area widget (wasavi is a browser extension) - so it does turn text fields into a vi-like editor. I can't imagine it plays well with vimperator-style extensions, though.
Would love to try this, however it seems like the Firefox add-on is not available unfortunately. I've already tried the alternatives (tridactyl, vimium), but did not really like them enough to keep them installed. Seems like with wasavi, you can selectively launch vim interface for a text field whenever you feel like it, which was something I missed with the other solutions (or I haven't looked deep enough back then). Anyone managed to run wasavi on firefox by any chance?
Interesting project idea for productivity. To be clear, the extension implements the editor features when it identifies a valid markup tag is supports? So the effectiveness is dependent on if the site uses the TEXTAREA tag for input.
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https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
Firenvim works in both Chrome and Firefox and you can harness the power of neovim, so that's a plus. Typing this from a neovim instance in firefox
Did you experience the same? I'm on Firefox 108.0.2.
https://homerow.app
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind
On an unrelated note, I made the same thing (barebones), but for Linux and theoretically also Windows: https://github.com/phil294/vimium-everywhere
I would also like to note that the Shortcat dev plans on adding licensing. Homerow has licensing, but there's no blocks on features. So they are both "free" in the same way.
https://www.qutebrowser.org/
https://luakit.github.io/
You have to run :adblock-update once to enable it.
Qutebrowser includes its own adblocker, which must be activated once after install and works well enough.
It also supports both userscripts and python scripting. Although that takes more fiddling, there's a pretty healthy support community for it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/14732745/
I remember switching to Firefox for it and loving it. But Safari gives me like 3-4 extra hours on an M1.
It's also available on GitHub if you're not interested in the Mac App Store: https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari
It works pretty well, but I've strayed away from using Vim & Vim bindings for everything after getting into using Emacs on my Linux box at work.
https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.
I use GhostText + NeoVim. This way I get real neovim backend and all my functinality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
“From the creators of the ship that wouldn’t float, now comes the editor that won’t edit!”
No wait, that’s not a great slogan. Hmm.
Perhaps from the makers of Wasa knäckebröd
https://www.wasa.com/global/
“You become what you code. Crunchy!”
Sounds like a weird slogan also heh
works fine in the gmail editor though!
I was using it but I stopped for some reason, I might give it another go. I think it had a few annoying bugs so I stopped using it.
Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?
There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText
[1] https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext
Ed: wasavi does enhance the text-area widget (wasavi is a browser extension) - so it does turn text fields into a vi-like editor. I can't imagine it plays well with vimperator-style extensions, though.
There is also Firenvim which embeds real neovim instances inside text boxes.
Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023428 - Feb 2016 (42 comments)