Using a browser is a part of life these days. Most Vim users have wanted to navigate a browser by Vim-like key binds. Today, I will introduce a new browser extension, Vimmatic, which enables you to use your browser with Vim-like key binds.
Install
Vimmatic supports both Firefox and Google Chrome. You can get Firefox add-on or Chrome Extensions from the following:
 Firefox |
 Chrome |
|---|---|
| Get an add-on | Get an extension (experimental support) |
Note that the Firefox requires an permission to run add-on on certain page. To run the add-on on any pages, ensure that "Access your data for all websites" is enabled on permissions tab on add-on settings.
Quick start
Vimmatic provides Vim-like key binds. To scroll a page in the browser, press k, j, h and l keys. You can scroll to the top or the bottom of a page by gg and G.
To select a left and right of current tab, use K and J respectively. To close current tab, use d and to restore closed tabs, use u.
See also Keymaps on official document for more detailed of keymaps.
Follow mode
To open a link, press f to enter the follow mode to select a link. Then you can select links by alphabetic keys.
Using command line
Vimmatic supports command line to run commands that control tabs and opens a tab. To open command line, press :.
To open a tab with URL, use open command as the following:
:open https://github.com/ueokande/vimmatic
or search keywords with search engine (such as Google) like:
:open How to use Vim
You can see completed commands on Console commands.
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