Chromium-vim doesn't work on michaelgeist.ca.
Works fine in Vimium 1.44.
The "Blacklisted Domains" setting is empty.

What I mean by that is: load custom mappings from a file.

I guess this can be tricky due to Chrome's limitations, but I think I might have some ideas.

One possibility would be to load the mappings manually from the settings page by the press of a button. This can potentially be tedious and impractical if the user changes the custom mappings regularly, but I think it's a good compromise.

Another potential solution would be to pull the mappings directly from the internet (either the raw version of a file from github, or a gist, or whatever..)

I really don't know if either of those potential solutions can be implemented, but it's worth it to try in my opinion. I recently uninstalled cVim and installed the latest version from github. And I lost all my mappings. The idea is to prevent stuff like that to happen.

Hya :)

quick marks and searches are broken again here

for single quickmarks they do work but dont launch the site but rather a google search
same for seach engines...it launches a google search
quickmark
multiple quickmark (for multiple sites) seem completely broken (maybe my syntax is wrong? though i followed the docu)

here is my current relevant section:

"Quick marks

let qmark 0 = "http=//www.weather.com/weather/today/Chestnut+Hill+MA+02467"
let qmark 1 = "https=//mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=cm&zx=1a9kkuzmcil0m&shva=1#inbox"
let qmark 2 = "https=//ttrss.server-speed.net/#f=-3am"
let qmark 3 = "https=//www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?tab=mc"

let qmark 5 = "https=//www.google.com/contacts/#contacts

let qmark 6 = ["http=//woot.com" ,"http=//1saleaday.com/" , "http=//mobile.dailysteals.com/" , "http=//slickdeals.net/", "http=//www.priceplunge.com/" , "http=//www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011" , "http=//deals.woot.com/"]

let qmark 7 = ["https=//groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/", "https=//plus.google.com/u/0/", "https=//bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=27"]

let qmark 9 = ["http=//www.walla.co.il/", "http=//www.ynet.co.il/", "http=//www.nrg.co.il/", "http=//sports.walla.co.il/", "http=//espn.go.com/", "http=//soccernet.espn.go.com/", "http=//www.cnn.com/", "http=//kde-apps.org/", "http=//kde-look.org/", "w"="http=//www.walla.co.il/"]

let qmark o = "http=//sports.walla.co.il/"
let qmark e = "http=//espn.go.com/"
let qmark s = "http=//soccernet.espn.go.com/?cc=5901"
let qmark c = "http=//www.cnn.com/"
let qmark l = "http=//www.livescore.com/default.dll?page=home"
let qmark L = "http=//www.firstrowsports.eu/"
let qmark S = "http=//subforge.org/projects/subtle/wiki"
let qmark E = "http=//espn.go.com/espn3/index"
let qmark P = "http=//paste.xinu.at/"
let qmark Y = "http=//picasaweb.google.com/ykloog"
let qmark d = "http=//debuzzer.com/"
let qmark R = "https=//bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=875820#p875820"
let qmark F = "http=//192.168.0.44/"
let qmark D = "http=//www.dropbox.com/"
let qmark W = "192.168.0.100"
let qmark M = "http=//www.nrg.co.il/online/55/ART2/334/648.html?hp=55&cat=302&loc=11"
let qmark m = "http=//talk.maemo.org/"
let qmark a = "http=//forum.mobilism.org/viewforum.php?f=398&sid=458ecb73421dcafe102bc23ef5f955fe"
let qmark q = "http=//slickdeals.net/"
let qmark x = "http=//forum.xbmc.org/"
let qmark h = "http=//www.haaretz.co.il/"
let qmark U = "http=//gmusicbrowser.org/layout_doc.html"
let qmark i = "http=//boston.craigslist.org/"
let qmark K = "http=//livetv.ru/en/"
let qmark f = "https=//bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=27"
let qmark g = "https=//plus.google.com/u/0/"
let qmark y = "www.ynet.co.il"
let qmark r = "http=//lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/"
let qmark u = "https=//github.com/zeltak"
let qmark v = "https=//vpn.bgu.ac.il/extender.html"

"internal chrome marks
let qmark x = :chrome://extensions

" Search engines
let searchengine im = "http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s&s=all"

OMG finally a worthy pentadactyl/vimperator solution, thank you so much for this :)

i would love to finally ditch FF to chrome but i cant live without quickmarks :) can i request support for quickmarking sites like in penta/vimp where g-o-a would launch site a and g-n-b would launch site b in a new tab etc. also crucial is a way to launch multiple sites together so g-n-0 would launch the associated quickmarks in multiple tabs

thxa alot again its truly epic

Z

Any time I include map ; scrollUp or something along those lines all my mappings stop working. Is mapping semi colon not supported?

When using a bottom command bar, the incremental search gets hidden…

Once the search expression is complete, I can zz out of behind the command bar, but I wonder if centering the incremental search hits wouldn't be better. At least, I think you should move it above the command bar.

With previous vim-like browser plugins, I often would search for something, then hit n some number of times. Then switch to another tab to continue hitting n and searching for the text I searched for. This doesn't work with cVim because the current search that is repeated with n appears to be local to each tab

For example with vimium, I can use the bookmark shortcut to activate the pocket bookmarklet, but with cVim, it just send the javascript code to a google search.

P.S. thanks a lot for this great plugin, it is a godsend for vim users.

Somehow this extension seems to override the JavaScript keyboard event listeners for text inputs in normal mode, even when noinsertmappings is set.

This makes it hard to interact with text inputs. For example, user can not navigate the auto completion menu with arrow keys, and the regular "hit enter to submit" stuff does not work on some sites.

It would be nice to make the extension automatically enter / leave insert mode as text inputs gain / lose focus. Or just stop overriding the keyboard listeners for text inputs.

I can see that gg and G are mapped by default to start and end of page. But I see no way to customize this.

Hi again

i have a few small ideas over the last few days id like to raise and see what you guys think:

1. more vim like visual mode: is it possible to have V and C-v like vim visual binds to start visual block/line selections in cvim's visual mode?
2. add some visual feedback to some command like : copied link to clip (yy) etc so a notification or something similar appears

3/ :bookmarks / (autocomplete) , how does that work, can we browse bookmark with levels so you can manually enter folders?

1. add a restart chrome command
2. add a reload all tabs command
3. add a keybind to quickly enable/disable cvim

thx alot

Z

I've just installed your plugin after having seen your post on /r/vim (great job, by the way!) So far this is removing any need I had for vimium, with only one shortcoming. Currently, :tabopen localhost:5000 or :tabopen http://localhost:5000 will detect that a search is desired and redirect the user to google, when this is a valid network request and should be treated as such. I suspect that this problem extends to other local DNS mappings as well, though I don't have any way to test that currently.

I've created a branch that adds very basic support for vim key bindings in normal HTML <textarea> and <input> elements. This is a pretty big change, so it would be great if some of you guys could test it out before I push the commit to master. Thanks!

When textareas/input elements are focused, they enter normal mode. Press 'i' to begin typing and escape to go back to normal mode (press escape/<-[> in normal or visual mode to unfocus the text box.

As discussed in issue #17 there is a "problem" with the loading of the extension. cVim loads after the web page loads, but not quite; Let me explain with a simple example. A feature was recently added to disable text inputs from getting the focus automatically. This created an annoyance: if the page is still loading and the user manually focuses the text field, cVim will "unfocus" it continuously until both cVim and the Web page are fully loaded. This is just one aspect of the problem. A lot of cVim's functionality suffers from the same issue. There are two potential solutions to this problems that come to my mind as of now, one of which is not viable or difficult to implement:

1. Load cVim before the Web page. (This is the solution that is not viable as discussed in issue #17)
2. Load cVim after the Web page. And by that I mean after the Web page is fully loaded.

The cvimrc config appears to not be parsed correctly if certain combinations of settings are used:
If I use the dogpile search engine definition from your example, it works.

let searchengine dogpile = "http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?q="

If I use it with the completionengines setting also specified in your example, it doesn't work.

let searchengine dogpile = "http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?q="
let completionengines = ["google", "amazon", "imdb"]

It doesn't get picked up at all, and if I manually type it in with a query:

:open dogpile cake

I just get a google search for "dogpile cake".
These entries are the only lines in my cVimrc config, and the issue is still present.

OS: Windows 7
Browser: Chrome Stable Version 35.0.1916.114 m
Extension: Chrome Store Version

One thing I really liked about some of the firefox vim-plugins is that you can disable the address bar. The biggest source of frustration I find is that I sometimes get 'trapped' in the address bar and do not have access to cVim commands. cVim has a command for open so the address bar seems redundant. Is there a way to disable it?

Hi

I dont know if this is by design or a bug but as opposed to FF and penta etc i cant use my cvim keys when i launch a website until its has been fully loaded (~2-3 seconds). this is slightly annoying when you launch multiple websites and want to start moving/scrolling etc.

thx!

Z

I'm finding that every time I restart chrome I have to re-enter all the cVimrc commands that I added previously (cVimrc becomes empty).

Here is the cVimrc I'm using:

set scrollstep=150
set autofocus=false

unmap d
map d :open

unmap j
map j scrollDown

unmap o
map o scrollPageUp

unmap i
map i scrollPageDown

unmap <C-i>
map <C-i> scrollUp

unmap s
map s createHint

unmap S
map S createTabbedHint

unmap Y
map Y yankUrl

unmap /
map / openSearchBar

unmap ?
map ? openSearchBarReverse

unmap I
map I insertMode

unmap l
map l scrollRight

unmap h
map h scrollLeft

unmap gi
map gi goToInput

unmap <C-v>
map <C-v> centerMatchH

unmap m
map m createMultiHint

unmap r
map r reloadTab

unmap R
map R reloadTabUncached

unmap yy
map yy yankDocumentUrl

unmap b
map b :bookmarks

unmap p
map p openPaste

unmap P
map P openPasteTab

unmap x
map x closeTab

unmap t
map t :tabopen

unmap H
map H goBack

unmap L
map L goForward

unmap ]]
map ]] nextMatchPattern

unmap [[
map [[ previousMatchPattern

unmap n
map n nextSearchResult

unmap N
map N previousSearchResult

unmap :
map : openCommandBar

unmap D
map D scrollToTop

unmap V
map V scrollToBottom

unmap f
map f :open

cVim conflicts with Stylish and some similar custom-CSS extensions I've tried - at least when my cVimrc is applied. I only found cVim yesterday so my cvimrc is still a work in progress, but I don't believe the content is invalid.

Stylish works fine without cVim installed. After install, things look fine when a page is first loaded, but upon scrolling or typing : to bring up the HUD, the page content disappears and I just see the base page colour.

The page content does re-appear, but only after a 10+ second wait - rather annoying.

After some considerable trial and error, I've determined that the setting autohidecursor is the cause of this conflict - commenting it out removes the problem.

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise N (32 bit)
Browser: Chrome Stable

I also use Linux, hence the use of this setting, but I haven't noticed the problem there.

I just downloaded the latest version of the extension (master branch), and the barposition option doesn't work anymore. The command bar is always at the top

Questions:
I want to use cvim as I do pentadactyl for searches = e.g.

:open g cake

to search google for cake.

I know that there's a default search engine "google" with the "completion engine" (suggestions) enabled, and it'd be great if I could use this or easily modify it's name/keyword to "g".

Is there any way I can make a shortcut / alternate name to use the default google search in cVim? e.g. search for cake by typing:

:open g cake

I'd prefer to use different keywords to the default for many of the existing ones I find useful, and I'd like to delete all the ones i don't use.

I'm aware of the setting "completionengines" and this helps a little in avoiding cluttered results in the HUD, but it doesn't let me use completion with my preferred search keywords.

A few questions:

1. What are all the defined default search engines, and is there any way I can modify, rename or delete them via the config file? e.g. I'd like to rename the google one to "g" and retain the search completion. I'd like to change the domain to google.co.uk to enable local results too.
2. Is there any reason these can't be exposed in the configuration file? i.e. None of them exist without entries in the config file, using the current syntax for "let searchengine", or an improved one.
3. If I were to simply ignore the default search engines and define my own duplicate ones using my preferred names, is there any way I can enable completion for these (assuming they're the same engines that you already have configured for this functionality)?

Thanks
OS: Windows 7
Browser: Chrome Stable Version 35.0.1916.114 m
Extension: Chrome Store Version

Basically I'd like to be able to sync them the same way I sync the rest of my config.

Thanks.

Hya

i cant seem to find in the Docu any reference to the undo close tab command, is this by design? i seem to remember we had such a command to bind to a key

off topic, can the hints be customized (color, size etc)?

best

Z

When you hit "t" or "o" to open the command box, and hit "Esc" to close it, the command line is gone, but the completion list stays there.

The background_script main.js has a really big switch, which handles the actions.
I would refactor it as followed, to remove some repeations and clearify the code.
And maybe I would move the actions to a separate file.
This would make it easier to write some unittests for the actions.

// all actions are in the actions object.
// they have access to the request, url and the sender
actions.openLink = function() {
  chrome.tabs.update({
    url: this.url
  });
};

actions.openLinkTab = function() {
  chrome.tabs.create({
    url: this.url,
    active: this.request.active,
    index: this.sender.tab.index + 1
  });
};

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(request, sender, callback) {
  var url = request.url;
// repeats and converting the url is handled for all requests
  if (isRepeat(request)) request.repeats = 1;
  if (url && !request.noconvert)  url = url.convertLink();

  actions.url = url;
  actions.request = request;
  actions.sender = sender;
  if (actions[request.action]) {
    for (var i = 0; i < request.repeats; i++) { // repeation is handled here for all requests
      actions[request.action](); // calls the correct action
    }
   ...

Do you see any problems?

Hi, first thanks a lot for this great extension.

I'm trying to migrate completely away from Vimium, but there are still a few issues that bother me, I'll try to characterize them as precisely as possible.

First, I have Chrome set up so that it reopens the tabs that were open when I last quit on opening.

When I enable cVim, I usually get a couple (not as many as my tabs, but usually at least 3 or 4) alert boxes while the tabs are all reloading. The only content is "undefined"…

I guess that cVim is trying to access something too early. May be its settings are the issue since I've had cases where if I don't manually reload a page, it seems that my cvimrc is ignored…

BTW, I'm using chromium-vim stable (from the store) on a Canary version of Chrome on MacOS (currently that's 37.0.2008.0).

Just wanted to know what everyone thinks about the command bar CSS. Any suggestions or changes that could be used to make it look a little better?

I don't always play videogames
But when I do, I read their online forums

And I have a few issues:
For instance http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/3354739/ (and all other battle.net) forums I've tried, fail to display hints for the individual posts… I don't think it is an iFrame issue (at least gf doesn't appear to cycle between anything)

I've had issues on a French forum too (http://scrolls.fr) but I think it was a problem with the forum software…

The syntax for defining a new search engine is currently not sufficient for all sites.

In firefox/pentadactyl, search engines are exposed as bookmarks, and use the following syntax with %s as the search query parameter.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=%s&c=apps

In cVim if I understand correctly the syntax is currently simpler, so I can only use search engines if the syntax has the query term as the last item following the URL.
Please confirm if I'm wrong about that - If not, any chance the syntax can be modified to match the firefox / pentadactyl standard?

Alternately do you intend to add a feature to use Chrome's native search keywords in cVim in the same way Pentadactyl works with Firefox search shortcuts?
I'd suggest this would save a lot of re-configuration - though I do appreciate being able to have all my configuration in text files that I can sync.

OS: Windows 7
Browser: Chrome Stable Version 35.0.1916.114 m
Extension: Chrome Store Version

Hi,

You said to post all ideas i had so here is another one ;-)

what do you think about user defined download folders when using hints?
lets say im using hints to download a file. what if there was an option to define in the RC file something like this:
set dl_dir1 = /home/zeltak/Downloads
set dl_dir2 = /home/zeltak/ISO

then i could prefix/postfix the hint with the a number/key and auto download to that dir, so something like ; >>2 >> HINTCHAR would download the file to the ISO dir?

any thoughts

thx

Z

we can use r as a shortcut for reloading the current page, it is much easier to hit than f5.

Hya

This may be totally undoable so im just putting it out there :)

wouldn't it be cool to have hints similar to link hints for tabs? that is you have a bunch of tabs open you press a key (lets say w/e etc) and numbers/alpha_chars appear overlaid/beside tabs. press 1/a/etc and it jumps to the first tab. press 5 the 5th etc

just a thought :)

best

Z

I use Chrome and Firefox so I switch between cVim and Pentadactyl. I just started using both and they seem pretty comparable (although I prefer cVim's hint notation), but it would be nice if cVim supported the various list commands. As a beginner, I find them very useful.

Hya

sorry to bother you with this this but even after latest update it still give me an error and dosent work. current syntax tried in config:

let qmark a = ["http://www.reddit.com", "http://www.google.com", "http://twitter.com"]
let qmark w = ["http://www.cnn.com"]
let qmark e = "http://www.espn.com"

also the search engines dont seem to quite work as expetced. btw have you thought maybe on using the built in chrome search engine/keyword database as in FF/penta. that way the user dosent need to define it twice
current config:

let searchengine im = "http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s&s=all"

ill be happy to help debug this

thx Jake

Z

An example would be choosing between the suggested bookmark pages

I'm finding that my vim muscle memory wants to go there instead of tab

When you press f/F (by default) to follow a link, it displays letters that you need to press to follow one. It would be cool if it was possible to also type (part of) the text of a link to decide which one to follow. I imagine this would probably be a problem if the hints are letters (there would be conflicts), so I guess this feature should only work if the hints are numbers (i.e.: setting the numerichints setting).

I hope you don't mind me spamming you with issues

I can't seem to remap the single quote key. The command I'm trying:

map ' previousSearchResult

In the cVim options I see a rule

.completion-item .right {
 font-style: italic;
 color: #888;
 width: 47%;
}

But the italic font-style does not get applied. In the inspector, I see a "user stylesheet" section that's overriding this:

.completion-item .right {
min-height: 0px;
border-radius: 0px;
box-sizing: content-box;
box-shadow: none;
margin: 0px;
-webkit-appearance: none;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-spacing: normal;
text-transform: none;
text-indent: 0px;
text-shadow: none;
text-align: start;
outline: none 0px;
border: 0px;
border-image-source: initial;
border-image-slice: initial;
border-image-width: initial;
border-image-outset: initial;
border-image-repeat: initial;
line-height: 1;
font-style: normal;
}

See screenshot:

Where is this coming from?

Hya

found another bug ;-)
The bar position is switched and messed up in unicode right to left pages. works perfectly on left to right english pages

thx

Z

Hi again

i would like to present an idea of scripts ive used in some alternative linux lightweight browsers that make it very easy to create small bash/js/other scripts from browser input.
warning: i know nothing about programming so the following could be a total mess ;-)
these bash/js/other scripts could be mapped/assigned to cvim key binds for quick launching. for example here are some scripts from dwb (http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/resources/manpage.html)

The following script will download the current webpage:

!/bin/bash

dwb: Control w

wget $DWB_URI

Popup an alert dialog:

!/bin/bash

dwb: Control h

echo "js window.alert('Hello world');" > ${DWB_FIFO}

maybe cvim could provide similar variables: DWB_URI, DWB_TITLE, DWB_PROFILE, DWB_NUMMOD, DWB_ARGUMENT

would love to hear input from everyone

Z

If you disable cVim on a page (i.e. reddit),
it would be nice when the tabnavigation and commandline stayed enabled.

It breaks the workflow if you switch tabs using J or K, and land on a disabled tab and you have to switch back to ctrl tab.

Maybe it would be nice to add a new function for this 'Disable cVim pagenavigation on this domain' or something like that.

Hi

is there anyway to disable cvim to auto enter text entry area when loading a new page? i would like to to that manually (gi?) if possible

best

Z

Hi again

im a little confused on what im doing wrong with qmarks
i have tried these 3 types in my config:

let qmark a = ["http://www.reddit.com", "http://www.google.com", "http://twitter.com"]
let qmark w = ["http://www.cnn.com"]
let qmark e = "http://www.espn.com"

yet none seem to work using gna/gnw/gne it always gives me an: Error: mark not set

what am i missing here

best

Z

Hi again

lovin' cvim alot :)

the current search works great but i was wondering why limit it to 4-5 engines? why not take the penta approach where one can launch a search using FF user added search engines (where here we can use chromes default search engines). in chrome you can assign a keyword to each search engine (ie google image search will be 'gi').
then like in penta i could use :gi wookie to launch a google image search for wookies etc

thx

Z

Hi

i cant quite put my finger on it but it seems that every X minutes/hours cvim stops working. all hotkeys, quickmakrs etc dont work until i restart chrome. any idea how one goes on debugging this? does anyone else have these issues

also is there a way in new chrome version to have cvim work in new tabs etc or will that never work?

best

Z

Hya

seems like each update of cvim wipes my config options.
also ive noticed there is a Sync cVimrc with GitHub Gist options which isnt editable, could that be the cause of the issue?

thx

Z

Hi there,

Is it possible to make the hjkl nagivation compatible with the PDF Viewer extension?

This extension uses HTML5 to display PDF files. However, cvim does currently not allow me to scroll the PDF files continously but only page-wise.

Thanks!

Hi Jake,
I couldn't load the extension. There is an error in the manifest.json.

Could not load extension from '/Users/stoeffel/src/chromium-vim'. 
Invalid value for 'content_scripts[0].matches[1]': Invalid scheme.

chrome://*/* isn't a valid pattern (see https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/match_patterns)

Or am I doing something wrong?

Best regards from switzerland
Stoeffel

In my cVimrc I wanted to remap keys to use b instead of B to bring up the :buffers menu.
After unmapping both keys, I map b to the new action with

    map b :buffers

After saving and refreshing a page, this doesn't work (no action at all).

After revisiting some pentadactylrc documention I tried:

    map b :buffers<Space>

and various similar codes to put a space after the :buffers command, , , , . This didn't work either.

The solution was to put a real " " space character after the :buffers command

 map b :buffers 

This works fine, but is clearly not easy to read, communicate to others or debug.

Suggested solution:

1. Add code to recognise as a space character, in the same way that means return.
2. Add an example like this into the example cVimrc config in the readme.

It seems that cVim now shows up as Image Zoom (both in the Chrome store as well as in my Extensions list). Even the options are for Image Zoom. cVim functionality has stopped working at this point.