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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
159 Follow link in new window
162 Focus next input field
167 The following commands are entered after first entering a colon (:)
171 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
177 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
181 .IP ":bma or :bookmark"
183 Bookmarks the current page.
185 Bookmarks are retrieved by tabcompletion when entering a new URL.
187 You can add tags to the bookmarks by just adding words after the command, e.g.
193 Open all bookmarks containing a certain tag in new windows.
195 .IP ":fo[rward] and :ba[ck]"
197 The commands :fo, :forward, :ba and :backward moves through the browse-history
199 .IP ":re[load], :re! and :reload!"
201 The commands :re, :reload, ;re! and :reload! are given to reload or
206 Cancel current loading
210 Toggles between normal view and sourcecode view.
215 Change default settings on the fly. See man vimprobablerc for the list of
216 settings to be changed.
220 Change default keybindings on the fly. See man vimprobablerc for the list of
221 mappings to be changed.
231 Print the current URL
235 Vimprobable is a modal browser. By default, it is in command mode, meaning that
236 any keystroke will be interpreted by the internal command engine. INSERT mode
237 is automatically activated if an input field on a website becomes focused.
238 Should this not work (due to limitations of the Webkit-GTK engine and the faulty
239 HTML code of some websites, this is possible), you can manually switch the
240 browser to PASSTHROUGH mode instead (Ctrl+Z). In INSERT and PASSTHROUGH modes,
241 keystrokes will not be interpreted by the browser, but passed to the underlying
244 In addition, there is HINT mode. This is activated with the "f" key by default.
245 Enter a the number of a link to follow it. Alternatively, you can enter the
246 link text (case sensitive) to narrow down your choices.
250 Up to 9 quickmarks can be defined. These are stored as quickmark 1 up to
251 quickmark 9. You can store the URI of the current
252 page as quickmark with
254 .I :set qmark=<hotkey>
256 Later you can recall the quickmark with
263 Store current URI as quickmark 4
270 Searchengines let you submit queries to web search engines and similar sites
271 without having to type the complete URL or visit the page first.
275 is defined as the shortcut for the search at example.com, you can use "ex
276 search term" instead of an URL to search there for "search term".
278 The following search engines (and shortcuts) are already defined in config.h:
281 http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%s
283 https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s
285 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
287 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
291 You can always overwrite them or define your own in
292 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/searchengines.
293 In this file, every line defines one shortcut for one URL in the following
294 format (without the angle brackets):
297 <shortcut> <URL with exactly one %s>
300 where the %s serves as a placeholder for the search term. Other percent signs
301 in the URL have to be escaped as %%\&.
303 .B Default search engine
305 If Vimprobable doesn't recognize an address as a valid URL or query to one of the
306 defined search engines, it will use the default search engine instead. See
307 .BR vimprobablerc (1)
308 on how to set this default.
312 Please make sure you create these files before running the browser.
313 Everything but the history, bookmarks and closed files is optional. The cookies
314 file is required if you want to use cookies.
316 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc
318 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/bookmarks
320 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/searchengines
322 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/cookies
324 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/history
326 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/closed
328 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/quickmarks
330 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/style.css
334 There has not been any significant bug-hunting yet.
336 Hannes Schueller and Matto Fransen
338 .BR vimprobablerc (1),