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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 mouselessly as possible. It uses keybindings that are inspired by Vim, the great editor.
36 Just like Vim, moving through a 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 section. These keybindings
63 can be changed - either at runtime by altering
67 in the source directory (in which case you will need to recompile to see changes take effect).
69 .IP "Move through current page"
70 Vimprobable recognizes the following motion commands:
71 0, $, g, <shift>G, h, j, k, l, Ctrl-b, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-d, Ctrl-u, Ctrl-e, Ctrl-y
73 .IP "Move through pages"
74 Ctrl-i, Ctrl-o, <shift>H, <shift>L
76 These commands are used to walk through the browse-history.
78 .IP "Reloading and cancel loading"
101 Zoom full content out
112 Yank current URL into clipboard
115 Yank current selection into clipboard
118 Load URL one directory up
121 Load rootdirectory of current URL
127 Load homepage into new window
130 Load URL from clipboard
133 Load URL from clipboard into new window
136 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
139 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
142 Open a new window with the URL which was closed last
151 Start backward search
163 Follow link in new window
166 Focus next input field
171 The following commands are entered after first entering a colon (:)
175 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
181 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
185 .IP ":bma or :bookmark"
187 Bookmarks the current page.
189 Bookmarks are retrieved by tabcompletion when entering a new URL.
191 You can add tags to the bookmarks by just adding words after the command, e.g.
197 Open all bookmarks containing a certain tag in new windows.
199 .IP ":fo[rward] and :ba[ck]"
201 The commands :fo, :forward, :ba and :backward move through the browse-history
203 .IP ":re[load], :re! and :reload!"
205 The commands :re, :reload, ;re! and :reload! are given to reload or
210 Cancel current loading
214 Toggles between normal view and sourcecode view.
219 Change default settings on the fly. See
221 for the list of settings to be changed.
225 Change default keybindings on the fly. See
227 for the list of mappings to be changed.
237 Print the current URL
241 Vimprobable is a modal browser. By default, it is in command mode, meaning that
242 any keystroke will be interpreted by the internal command engine. INSERT mode
243 is automatically activated if an input field on a website becomes focused.
244 Should this not work (due to limitations of the Webkit-GTK engine and the faulty
245 HTML code of some websites, this is possible), you can manually switch the
246 browser to PASSTHROUGH mode instead (Ctrl+Z). In INSERT and PASSTHROUGH modes,
247 keystrokes will not be interpreted by the browser, but passed to the underlying
250 In addition, there is HINT mode. This is activated with the "f" key by default.
251 Enter a the number of a link to follow it. Alternatively, you can enter the
252 link text (case sensitive) to narrow down your choices.
256 Up to 9 quickmarks can be defined. These are stored as quickmark 1 up to
257 quickmark 9. You can store the URI of the current
258 page as quickmark with
260 .I :set qmark=<hotkey>
262 Later you can recall the quickmark with
269 Store current URI as quickmark 4
276 Searchengines let you submit queries to web search engines and similar sites
277 without having to type the complete URL or visit the page first.
281 is defined as the shortcut for the search at example.com, you can use "ex
282 search term" instead of an URL to search there for "search term".
284 The following search engines (and shortcuts) are already defined in config.h:
287 http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%s
289 https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s
291 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
293 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
297 You can always overwrite them or define your own in
298 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/searchengines.
299 In this file, every line defines one shortcut for one URL in the following
300 format (without the angle brackets):
303 <shortcut> <URL with exactly one %s>
306 where the %s serves as a placeholder for the search term. Other percent signs
307 in the URL have to be escaped as %%\&.
309 .B Default search engine
311 If Vimprobable doesn't recognize an address as a valid URL or query to one of the
312 defined search engines, it will use the default search engine instead. See
313 .BR vimprobablerc (1)
314 on how to set this default.
318 Please make sure you create these files before first running the browser.
319 Everything but the history, bookmarks and closed files is optional. The cookies
320 file is required if you want to use cookies.
322 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc
324 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/bookmarks
326 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/searchengines
328 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/cookies
330 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/history
332 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/closed
334 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/quickmarks
336 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/style.css
340 There has not been any significant bug-hunting yet.
342 Hannes Schueller and Matto Fransen
344 .BR vimprobablerc (5),