Vimium is not just for Developers

Written November 28, 2021

Chrome Extensions

This video is by no means an exhaustive list of everything Vimium can do, but I can walk you through the features I use everyday that I think are a good starting point and then you can decide if you want to mix in anything else.

• J/K Arrow Keys
• F to tap on any button
• / to search for any word on the page and then double tap enter to click on that link
  • If there are multiple instances of the word on the page you can tap enter once to commit the search and then use n to jump to the next instance of it.
  • Shift N to go back

Be sure to check out the available commands in the settings. There are bunch of good commands in here that I don’t use, either one because I didn’t know about them and should be using them or because I already have existing muscle memory that I don’t feel like overwriting (from years of using other apps).

• Open current clipboard url in the current tab p
  • New Tab is Shift + P
• Tab Left, Shift + J
• Tab Right, Shift + K
• Back
  • Command + [
  • Shift + H
• Forward
  • Command + ]
  • Shift + L
• Open a new tab
  • Command + L, or Command + T
  • o or Shift + O

• Or gi, I’m used to just hitting tab. Close Tabs
• Command + W
  • or with Vimium you can use x
• Reopen the last tab
  • Command + Shift + T
  • or Shift + X
• yy to copy the current url to the clipboard
  • I do cmd+l, cmd+c but this I should embrace this one

Exclude R & Escape from all pages (especially my own as they are useful)

• Figma

• Look up what my excludes are currently