chromium-vim

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What is cVim?

Vim for Google Chrome. I hate using the mouse, especially after learning Vim. With my desktop (Linux), I have a lot of key bindings that make doing things easier: I open Chrome with Alt+w, I close a window with Alt+Shift+d, I open a terminal with Alt+t. This is harder to do with Chrome because it has no section for customizing keyboard shortcuts, and it is still necessary to use the mouse to do things like click links. cVim aims to eliminate this problem as best as the Chrome extensions API will allow it to.

Where can I get cVim?

• There are two ways:
• You can install it through the Chrome web store
• You can download the .zip file here and enable cVim by going to the chrome://extensions URL and checking developer mode, then pointing Chrome to the unzipped folder via the Load unpacked extensions... button.

Why is this different than Vimium, ViChrome, or Vrome?

These extensions do a wonderful job of adding Vim-like keybindings to Google Chrome, but they lack many of the features that Firefox Addon, Pentadactyl, have.

• What features does cVim add to Chrome?
• Google/IMDB/Wikipedia/Amazon/Duckduckgo/Yahoo/Bing search completion
• Support for custom search engines
• History and Bookmark search/completion with bookmark folder support
• Caret/Visual mode
• Efficient link hints (with support for custom mappings)
• Support for custom keyboard mappings
• Regex page search with highlighting
• Command bar with tab-completion
• Smooth scrolling

cVim Help

cVimrc

• Boolean cVimrc settings are enabled with the command 'set' + <SETTING_NAME> and disabled with the command 'set' + no<SETTING_NAME> (for example, set regexp and set noregexp)
• Boolean cVimrc settings can be inversed by adding "!" to the end
• Other settings are defined with = used as a separator and are prefixed by let (for example, let hintcharacters="abc")

setting type description default searchlimit integer set the amount of results displayed in the command bar 25 scrollstep integer set the amount of pixels scrolled when using the scrollUp and scrollDown commands 70 timeoutlen integer The amount of time to wait for a <Leader> mapping in milliseconds 1000 fullpagescrollpercent integer set the percent of the page to be scrolled by when using the scrollFullPageUp and scrollFullPageDown commands 0 typelinkhintsdelay integer the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before taking input after opening a link hint with typelinkhints and numerichints enabled 300 scrollduration integer the duration of smooth scrolling 500 vimport integer set the port to be used with the editWithVim insert mode command 8001 zoomfactor integer / double the step size when zooming the page in/out 0.1 scalehints boolean animate link hints as they appear false hud boolean show the heads-up-display true regexp boolean use regexp in find mode true ignorecase boolean ignore search case in find mode true linkanimations boolean show fade effect when link hints open and close false numerichints boolean use numbers for link hints instead of a set of characters false dimhintcharacters boolean dim letter matches in hint characters rather than remove them from the hint true defaultnewtabpage boolean use the default chrome://newtab page instead of a blank page false cncpcompletion boolean use <C-n> and <C-p> to cycle through completion results (requires you to set the nextCompletionResult keybinding in the chrome://extensions page (bottom right) false smartcase boolean case-insensitive find mode searches except when input contains a capital letter true incsearch boolean begin auto-highlighting find mode matches when input length is greater thant two characters true typelinkhints boolean (numerichints required) type text in the link to narrow down numeric hints false autohidecursor boolean hide the mouse cursor when scrolling (useful for Linux, which doesn't auto-hide the cursor on keydown) false autofocus boolean allows websites to automatically focus an input box when they are first loaded true insertmappings boolean use insert mappings to navigate the cursor in text boxes (see bindings below) true smoothscroll boolean use smooth scrolling false autoupdategist boolean if a GitHub Gist is used to sync settings, pull updates every hour (and when Chrome restarts) false nativelinkorder boolean Open new tabs like Chrome does rather than next to the currently opened tab false showtabindices boolean Display the tab index in the tab's title false sortlinkhints boolean Sort link hint lettering by the link's distance from the top-left corner of the page false localconfig boolean Read the cVimrc config from configpath (when this is set, you connot save from cVim's options page false completeonopen boolean Automatically show a list of command completions when the command bar is opened false configpath string Read the cVimrc from this local file when configpath is set "" changelog boolean Auto open the changelog when cVim is updated true completionengines array of strings use only the specified search engines ["google", "duckduckgo", "wikipedia", "amazon"] blacklists array of strings disable cVim on the sites matching one of the patterns [] mapleader string The default <Leader> key \ defaultengine string set the default search engine "google" locale string set the locale of the site being completed/searched on (see example configuration below) "" homedirectory string the directory to replace ~ when using the file command