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Firefox Tridactyl Add On Vim like Shortcuts

Modes

Description	Shortcut
Command mode (like vi)	:
Exit current mode back to normal mode	ESC
Hint mode (select links)	f
Hint mode (select links, open in background new tab)	F
Ignore mode (past all keys as normal to browser)	Shift + Insert

Visual Mode, Hint Mode for Selecting and copying text

Description	Shortcut
Hint mode, copy element text like paragraph	;p
Hint mode, copy link location	;y
Hint mode, Kill an element (delete it)	;k
Visual mode, adjust selection	h, j, k, l, e, w, b
Visual mode, copy text	y
Visual mode, enter	v or other options below
Visual mode, move cursor to end of selection	o
Visual mode, web search selected text	s or S

Visual mode enter options: v, mouse to select text, ;h, search with /, F7

Movement

Browser specific

Tabs

Description	Shortcut
Close / delete tab	d
Go to first/last tab	g0, g$
Go to last active tab	C-^
Open new tab	t
See open tabs and filter/select items	b + type + TAB/SHIFT-TAB
Switch tabs	Shift + j (previous) or k (next))
Switch tabs by list	b
Undo close item	u

Pages

Description	Shortcut
Historym, Back and Forward	H (back), L (forward)
Bookmark set - global persistent on restarts	markadd [A-Z]
Bookmark set - local non-persistent	markadd [a-z]
Copy current tab title to clipboard	yt
Copy current URL to clipboard	yy
Go to, Focus on first text box for input	gi
Go to, Next page (guess it)	]]
Go to, Previous page (guess it)	[[
Jump back to where you came from	“
Jump to bookmark	` + [a-z] or [A-z]

Same as vim

Description	Shortcut
Navigation	hjkl
Go to beginning of page	gg
Go to end of page	G
Repeat last action	.

j and k are bound to scrollline 10 and -10 respectively

Settings

Description	Shortcut
Zoom in, out, default	zi, zo, zz

Search

Description	Shortcut
Search page	/
Search: next, previous match	C-g, C-G
Open search default search engine, or open in new tab search	s, S

Command mode

Description	Shortcut
History, navigate	Arrow key up or down
Enter command mode	:
Complete command from history	C-f
Completion, cycle	Tab, Shift + Tab
Insert URL of highlighted completion	Space
Run highlighted completion and keep command mode open	Ctrl + Enter
Copy highlighted completion to clipboard	Ctrl + o yy

# Open help
:help
:h
:help [command]
:help [setting]

# Open interactive tutorial
:tutor

# View page source
:viewsource

# Containers
## Create
:createcontainer name [color] [icon]
## Open tab with container with -c name of container
:tabopen -c name [url]

# Enter ignore mode for specified URLs
:blacklistadd [url]
# Remove the URL from the blacklist
:blacklistremove [url]

# Search with a specific search engine
open duckduckgo <query>
tabopen bing <query>
## Default search engine
open search <query>

# Detach tab to new window
tabdetach

# Run command sequentially with ;
composite [commmand 1]; [command 2]

# Pipe commands
composite [commmand 1] | [command 2]

Settings, Key bindings

# Search for a setting
:apropos

# Read settings from file, url, clipboard
source [arguments]
# Defaults to ~/.tridactylrc, ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tridactyl/tridactylrc
# and on Windows %USERPROFILE%
## Help for sourcing
:help source

# Search for a setting
:apropos
# Search for a setting
:apropos
get [setting]
# Setting, set value
set [setting]
## Set theme to dark
set theme dark
# Setting, unset value
unset [setting]
# Delete a setting
:setnull [setting]

# See current configuration
:viewconfig
## See current normal mode bindings
:viewconfig nmaps
## Default search engine and available engines or define them in searchurls
:viewconfig searchengine
:viewconfig searchurls
## Hint filter mode
:viewconfig hintfiltermode

# Theme appearance with dark or default
:viewconfig theme

# Aliases for ex commands
:viewconfig exaliases

# Check key binding
:bind j
# Rebind a key
:bind J tabnext

See Also

Resource

:tutor inside Tridactyl
Make Firefox Even Better With This Extension - The Linux Cast on YouTube - walkthrough of common features, tutor
Tridactyl Tutorial