If you like Vim, you should also check out Vimium - an extension, that enables Vim-like navigation in the browser. Never take your fingers off the home row!
A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.
If you like Vimium, try qutebrowsers or Luakit, where keyboard is a first-class citizen that works everywhere and is not dependent on JS injection. May have a learning curve (took me about 3 days to get functional.)
Just to share my own experience of trying to make this my daily web driver, both these solutions are using webkit, and webkit behaviour is not exactly perfect and can be a real pain to update. Same issue with Nyxt, which I very much wanted to use. In the end I went for Trydactyl which give the best of both world: a web browser that works, with a decent ecosystem for extensions (lack of ublock is very quickly felt, even if yes there are some alternatives but... not as good and simple) and a powerful interface that you can mod to your needs, vim or emacs shortcut can be used.
Especially since apparently Wasavi is not a firefox plugin anymore apparently.
There's no anchor to "Firefox add-on" on the page and the firefox plugin search
turns up nothing.
Firenvim works in both Chrome and Firefox and you can harness the power of
neovim, so that's a plus.
Typing this from a neovim instance in firefox
This looks very similar to shortcat https://shortcat.app/, can you tell me what your program offers that the other one (free, but also not OS) does not?
I've been using FireNvim for quite a while now to turn textareas into editors. I like that this extension doesn't actually require vim/nvim to be installed on the system, but that also makes it a bit weaker. If everything happens in the browser then we're left only with a subset of what's possible with a full vim experience (plus, the user's vim configuration won't apply)
> Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?
There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText
Ed: wasavi does enhance the text-area widget (wasavi is a browser extension) - so it does turn text fields into a vi-like editor. I can't imagine it plays well with vimperator-style extensions, though.
Would love to try this, however it seems like the Firefox add-on is not available unfortunately. I've already tried the alternatives (tridactyl, vimium), but did not really like them enough to keep them installed. Seems like with wasavi, you can selectively launch vim interface for a text field whenever you feel like it, which was something I missed with the other solutions (or I haven't looked deep enough back then). Anyone managed to run wasavi on firefox by any chance?
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https://github.com/philc/vimium
A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.
I remember switching to Firefox for it and loving it. But Safari gives me like 3-4 extra hours on an M1.
https://www.qutebrowser.org/
https://luakit.github.io/
https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
Firenvim works in both Chrome and Firefox and you can harness the power of neovim, so that's a plus. Typing this from a neovim instance in firefox
https://homerow.app
On an unrelated note, I made the same thing (barebones), but for Linux and theoretically also Windows: https://github.com/phil294/vimium-everywhere
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/14732745/
I use GhostText + NeoVim. This way I get real neovim backend and all my functinality.
I was using it but I stopped for some reason, I might give it another go. I think it had a few annoying bugs so I stopped using it.
Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?
There is also Firenvim which embeds real neovim instances inside text boxes.
There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText
[1] https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext
Ed: wasavi does enhance the text-area widget (wasavi is a browser extension) - so it does turn text fields into a vi-like editor. I can't imagine it plays well with vimperator-style extensions, though.
Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11023428 - Feb 2016 (42 comments)