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Firefox Tridactyl Add On Vim like Shortcuts

Modes

Section titled “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

Section titled “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

Section titled “Movement”

Browser specific

Section titled “Browser specific”

Tabs

Section titled “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

Section titled “Pages”
Description Shortcut
History, 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

Section titled “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

Section titled “Settings”
Description Shortcut
Zoom in, out, default zi, zo, zz
Section titled “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

Section titled “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

Section titled “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

Section titled “See Also”

Resource

Section titled “Resource”