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by lnx01 1922 days ago
I would love to see a video of how one operates a GUI using a keyboard. I'm know some vi and zero emacs, so how Vimium works eludes me, but it would be great to someone do some impressive stuff without ever touching the mouse. I imagine the learning curve must be really steep, and not something I'd like to sped any portion of my work day learning.
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Well if you are familiar with Vim learning Vimium was super easy barely any inconvience. I used an Anki deck to become familiar with all of the shortcuts and boom, off to the races.

The biggest keys to remember is f which shows all the links you can click on. I should add a disclaimer however that I ended up using vimium probably only 50% of the time, I've noticed when I am in the middle of working I use vimium more heavily, during light browsing I tend to use the mouse a bit more.

I will also say the other big thing that wasn't possible before Vimium is that I can now add a bookmark to pretty much any page I will visit more than once and then that page is only a 'Shift + b' and a couple of keystrokes away. Super efficient when dealing with giant bloated web apps that take 5 seconds to render every state change.

Vimium for gui in two secs: f - show keys to press to click something and open the link in the current window F - same except opens in a new window /<chars> <enter> - search, n for next and p for previous V - visual cursor selection, y copies esc - get out of anything

There's a lot more, but you can go a long way just with that.

Check out Luke Smith on Youtube.