up until 3 days ago, i would have agreed. but after using pentadactyl since then, there pretty much is no comparison. the whole browser is pretty much accessible and configurable. it feels a hella lot more liberating.
being able to search your bookmarks, history, and even your files on you hard drive QUICKLY and from within the browser is just a completely different world.
It is - the way you enter passthrough mode for domains in Vimium vs. passkeys for Pentadactyl is what makes the difference for me. Being able to still use the plugin when I'd like to and when I don't is perfect.
Some activity in the vimperator project (even if it's a fork) is great. I've been using it for years, but some annoying bugs (that I've learned to live with) continue to persist, such as the state reverting on page load. On most sites, this is after you're able to interact with the page. You could be typing something in a form, then the state resets, and you press r only to have it reload the entire page.
Edit: Just installed Pentadactyl, it's also much faster.
Is there anything like this but with Emacs bindings, for Chrome or FF?
Yes, I know of Conkeror, but leaving behind every other extension I depend on (or wasting my time supporting hacks to make them work) just doesn't work for me.
Can anyone who's moved from Vimperator to Pentadactyl comment on how hard it is to port your .vimperatorrc to a corresponding .pentadactylrc? I've got a bunch of bookmarklets set up in my .vimperatorrc with custom shortcuts (Readability, QR code generator, add to InstaPaper, etc.), plus a lot of custom shortcuts.
One of the big things I like about Vimium is that it allows for lettered hinting, which I prefer to numbered hinting (which is the only option in Vimperator). Also, very annoyingly, you can't use "[" or "]" as shortcuts in Vimperator - I'd like to use them to switch tabs to the left & right, but I'm stuck using "{" and "}" instead. This is just a bug, but the low activity level in Vimperator means there's no one around to fix it.
Actually, any key that you don't use as a hintkey can still be used to narrow down the hints. I use lowercase hint keys, and I can hold shift and type the link text (as the matching is case-insensitive, but the labels are not). It works very well.
For aesthetic reasons I like to render the hint labels in uppercase. It can be done by adding text-transform: uppercase; to the Hint selector with :highlight
So this article prompted me to upggrade to Firefox 4 and from Vimperator to this. I've noticed one annoying bug:
If I start typing the first few letters of a site I want to visit then hit tab to complete it the highlight jumps to the first item in the list just before the tab completion kicks in. So the site I want to visit is highlighted, but the command line at the bottom shows a different site (the top entry if I tab complete from nothing) so it keeps sending me to the wrong site. Am I doing something wrong?
I tried this and was very impressed. However, I'm primarily an emacs user and switching back and forth is jarring. Can anyone recommend a similar Firefox add-on patterned after emacs?
where? the "command...." entries? those are basically javascript bookmarklets that are typically installed in your bookmarklets bar, but have now been assigned their own command. e.g., just type
I'm planning to switch from Vimperator to this when I install Firefox 4, however, I already have numbered hinting when I hit f. Is it different in some way?
I had continuous problems with Vimperator on FF4, thus far Pentadactyl's been a bit more stable although occasionally it seems to get deactivated altogether and I need to restart the browser.
Like vimperator, too slow to feel usable. The delay in hitting F to getting links is way too deep into human perceptibility to be anything other than irritating.
The highlighting drives me mad too, and no I don't care if it can be shut off. The slowness already killed my enthusiasm.
Is there something about how Firefox interacts with plugins that vimperator and now Pentadactyl can't seem to get the performance down?
Vimperator and Pentadactyl are inspired by Vim, so that wouldn't make any sense. (w is move forward by a word, s is delete char under point and enter insert mode, a is insert after point, and d is the delete action)
