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4 .TH VIMPROBABLE2 1 "FEBRUARY 2012" "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
162 .I " " F (or ;t or ;w)
163 Follow link in new window
166 Save the specified link (or element) to disk
169 Yank the destination's location
172 Generate an :open command with the link's URL (like O)
175 Generate an :tabopen command with the link's URL (like T)
178 Open image in current window
181 Open image in new window
184 Focus next input field
189 The following commands are entered after first entering a colon (:)
193 Insert URL from keyboard and load it
199 Insert URL from keyboard and load it into new window
203 .IP ":bma or :bookmark"
205 Bookmarks the current page.
207 Bookmarks are retrieved by tabcompletion when entering a new URL.
209 You can add tags to the bookmarks by just adding words after the command, e.g.
215 Open all bookmarks containing a certain tag in new windows.
217 .IP ":fo[rward] and :ba[ck]"
219 The commands :fo, :forward, :ba and :backward move through the browse-history
221 .IP ":re[load], :re! and :reload!"
223 The commands :re, :reload, ;re! and :reload! are given to reload or
228 Cancel current loading
232 Toggles between normal view and sourcecode view.
237 Change default settings on the fly. See
239 for the list of settings to be changed.
243 Change default keybindings on the fly. See
245 for the list of mappings to be changed.
255 Print the current URL
259 Vimprobable is a modal browser. By default, it is in command mode, meaning that
260 any keystroke will be interpreted by the internal command engine. INSERT mode
261 is automatically activated if an input field on a website becomes focused.
262 Should this not work (due to limitations of the Webkit-GTK engine and the faulty
263 HTML code of some websites, this is possible), you can manually switch the
264 browser to PASSTHROUGH mode instead (Ctrl+Z). In INSERT and PASSTHROUGH modes,
265 keystrokes will not be interpreted by the browser, but passed to the underlying
268 In addition, there is HINT mode. This is activated with the "f" key by default.
269 Enter a the number of a link to follow it. Alternatively, you can enter the
270 link text (case sensitive) to narrow down your choices.
274 Up to 9 quickmarks can be defined. These are stored as quickmark 1 up to
275 quickmark 9. You can store the URI of the current
276 page as quickmark with
278 .I :set qmark=<hotkey>
280 Later you can recall the quickmark with
287 Store current URI as quickmark 4
294 Searchengines let you submit queries to web search engines and similar sites
295 without having to type the complete URL or visit the page first.
299 is defined as the shortcut for the search at example.com, you can use "ex
300 search term" instead of an URL to search there for "search term".
302 The following search engines (and shortcuts) are already defined in config.h:
305 http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%s
307 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
309 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search=%s&go=Go
311 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=Vimprobable
313 https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%s&t=Vimprobable
317 You can always overwrite them or define your own in
318 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc.
319 See vimprobablerc (5) for details.
320 .B Default search engine
322 If Vimprobable doesn't recognize an address as a valid URL or query to one of the
323 defined search engines, it will use the default search engine instead. See
324 .BR vimprobablerc (5)
325 on how to set this default.
329 You can define external applications to handle requests for defined URI schemas.
331 The following URI handlers are already defined in config.h:
334 x-terminal-emulator -e wget %s
336 x-terminal-emulator -e mutt %s
341 .BR vimprobablerc (5)
342 for details how to add or override these settings.
344 You can always overwrite them or define your own in
345 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc.
349 Please make sure you create these files before first running the browser.
350 Everything but the history, bookmarks and closed files is optional. The cookies
351 file is required if you want to use cookies.
353 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/vimprobablerc
355 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/bookmarks
357 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/cookies
359 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/history
361 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/closed
363 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/quickmarks
365 .I $HOME/.config/vimprobable/style.css
369 There has not been any significant bug-hunting yet.
371 Hannes Schueller and Matto Fransen
373 .BR vimprobablerc (5),