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Using Vim is Amazing (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I’ve tried vim on and off during college but never really had the time to fully get working with it. As it turns out the stress of two degrees is not conducive to “fun activities”. Now that I have a real job ™️, I’ve decided to finally try and use it this week full stop and I genuinely feel like a programming chad. There’s still a lot I’ll need to learn and probably overtime I’ll discover some inefficiency in how I’m using it now but it really does just feel good. I understand the hype now.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

how do you actually navigate a browser tho? i always feel like i need the mouse for that...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I use Qutebrowser. All links and interactions are keybound. so if for example I want to "click" on your user name I hit "F" which pops up a link hint and then hit whatever two letters are over the link. so for your profile it would be f + ll. that's it. everything that it's on a webpage that you would normally use a mouse to interact with can all be done with keybinds. It's great, it's quick.

    Browser navigation is also keybound. if I want to go back I hit shift+h. forward is shift+l. to switch tabs it's shift+j or k. closing a tab is just pressing d.

    there's also extenstions for chrome and firefox that will do the same thing like vimium and tridactyl.

    If you've used Vim for an extended period of time then navigating the same way in a browser is actually awesome. takes a bit to get used to but once you do you won't go back and trying to use a browser with a mouse just feels slow.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Try Vimium if you use Firefox, Chrome, or something Chromium-based. Invoking links with ‘f’ and a couple letters is so comfortable that I now get mad when the addon doesn't work on Mozilla's sites (due to security concerns) or when a site has ‘links’ implemented with JS.

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