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I absolutely love vimium. Such a great tool.

[Vimium + i3 + vim + vscode/vmplugin] Means that I rarely have to reach for the mouse, have a tonne of desktop real estate that's easy to navigate and is way more comfortable.

Just having search, simple navigation and the 'f-feature' in vimium is enough for like 99% of my use cases.

It's such a pleasant and seamless experience to code in the editor, hop on over to the terminal to do w/e, skip on over to the browser to look something up, and go back to code. The muscle memory just takes over. Not to mention all the other benefits like having to track down small icons, sometimes changing window state (e.g. unmaximize, moving things around), and how much more effort using a mouse is over 2-3 keystrokes.

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My setup is pretty close to yours, I've found this tool to be absolutely invaluable as an alternative to digging through menus :)

https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud

How does Vimium compare to Tridactyl which is Firefox only?

Just repeating my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637140 although it was Tridactyl vs QuteBrowser, the same applies. Before tridactyl, I used vimium and vim-vixen, this is the best one hands down. In terms of integration with Firefox and links recognition. For the hints, it's mainly the fact that tridactyl highlights the elements hinted, for example with the Twitter web UI:

tridactyl: https://imgur.com/D1PDBgY

qutebrowser: https://imgur.com/m4vtbk0

Now it's not that a big deal, but the advantages appears clearly on more saturated pages, off the top of my head, stackoverflow's triage:

With qutebrowser[0], if I want to close the modal, `gs` and `hd` are almost on the same place (it's only with experience that I noticed that hints are top left so `hd` is the hint I'm looking for) compare this to tridactyl[1] the `hy` fits very nicely with the highlight which doesn't let any place for ambiguity. I noticed your other answer about the addons, it's very much appreciated, and if I can help with the beta or whatever, let me know, keep up with the great work.

0: https://imgur.com/H4oGufK

1: https://imgur.com/NyNyOoX

Thanks, I ask because currently I'm using Tridactyl on Firefox but Vimium on Chrome, and it's interesting to compare the two approaches to the same problems.

I use the exact same setup. Although I switched to only this year after spending time revisiting my workflow. Its indeed quite a bit faster for doing serious work although when I'm just browsing casually I do use the mouse just to give my fingers a rest.

How do you copy / paste text in that setup? Often I need to copy text from browser and paste into vim.

You can search for text, then press `v` to go to visual mode, and then `y` to yank.

There’s also a caret mode you can get into with `vc` that then let’s you move a caret around the page with the motion keys, and you can use it to highlight and yank text like you would in vim.

Thanks for the tip! It seems to work well. When I go to 'visual mode' its easy to move the text selector forward, but what if I want to expand back in paragraph?

'B' moves back an entire word, '{' moves to the previous paragraph break.

What do you mean by "vmplugin" ?

Not OP but they are probably talking about the vscode extension that provides Vim keybindings https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim

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