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4 .TH VIMPROBABLE2 1 "JANUARY 2010" "Linux User Manuals"
6 Vimprobable \- A WWW browser based on webkit with keybindings inspired by vim, the great editor.
13 .OP \fL\-v|\-\-version
19 Use the specified config file. If none found, defaults to
20 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc
23 Given the windowid of an XEmbed-aware application, Vimprobable will use that as its parent.
26 Prints out a short usage summary.
29 Prints the version of Vimprobable.
32 Vimprobable is a WWW browser that is build around the webkit library. Vimprobable is fast.
33 Vimprobable comes without buttons and other graphic widgets. It is aimed at being controlled
34 as mouseless as possible. It uses keybindings that are inspired by vim, the great editor.
36 Just like vim, moving through the webpage can be done by entering commands by the keyboard.
37 Most of these commands require just one or two keystrokes.
39 Vimprobable mimics the ex-commandmode of vim. By entering a colon (:) commands like open,
40 set and map can be entered.
44 Don't want to read this entire manpage? Here are a few basic steps:
47 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
50 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
62 The default keyboard bindings are explained in this sections. These keybindings
65 .IP "Move through current page"
66 Vimprobable recognizes the following motion commands:
67 0, $, g, <shift>G, h, j, k, l, Ctrl-b, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-d, Ctrl-u, Ctrl-e, Ctrl-y
69 .IP "Move through pages"
70 Ctrl-i, Ctrl-o, <shift>H, <shift>L
72 These commands are used to walk through the browse-history.
74 .IP "Reloading and cancel loading"
108 Yank current URL into clipboard
111 Yank current selection into clipboard
114 Load URL one directory up
117 Load rootdirectory of current URL
123 Load homepage into new window
126 Load URL from clipboard
129 Load URL from clipboard into new window
132 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
135 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
138 Open a new window with the URL which has been closed last
147 Start backward search
156 The following commands are entered after first entering a colon (:)
160 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
166 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
170 .IP ":bma or :bookmark"
172 Bookmarks the current page.
174 Bookmarks are retrieved by tabcompletion when entering a new URL.
176 You can add tags to the bookmarks by just adding words after the command, e.g.
182 Open all bookmarks containing a certain tag in new windows.
184 .IP ":fo[rward] and :ba[ck]"
186 The commands :fo, :forward, :ba and :backward moves through the browse-history
188 .IP ":re[load], :re! and :reload!"
190 The commands :re, :reload, ;re! and :reload! are given to reload or
195 Cancel current loading
199 Toggles between normal view and sourcecode view.
204 Change default settings on the fly. See man vimprobablerc for the list of
205 settings to be changed.
209 Change default keybindings on the fly. See man vimprobablerc for the list of
210 mappings to be changed.
220 Print the current URL
224 Up to 9 quickmarks can be defined. These are stored as quickmark 1 up to
225 quickmark 9. You can store the URI of the current
226 page as quickmark with
228 .I :set qmark=<hotkey>
230 Later you can recall the quickmark with
237 Store current URI as quickmark 4
244 Please make sure you create these files before running the browser.
245 Everything but the history, bookmarks and closed files is optional. The cookies
246 file is required if you want to use cookies.
248 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc
250 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/bookmarks
252 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/cookies
254 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/history
256 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/closed
258 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/quickmarks
260 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/style.css
264 There has not been any significant bug-hunting yet.
266 Hannes Schueller and Matto Fransen
268 .BR vimprobablerc (1),