On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Michael M. Moore<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:35 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> OK, the Subject header is flame bait, but I accidentally discovered >> vi-esque shortcuts in Google Calendar today. In any view (day, week, >> month), you can navigate to the next time unit using j or n or to the >> previous time unit using k or p. >> >> I find that hilarious. >> > > Google Reader: > j/k -- next item, previous item > m -- mark item (toggle read or unread) > gh -- go to GR homepage > ga -- show "All items" view > gs -- show starred items > gt [tag] -- go to specified tag > > This is why I like Google Reader ... very vim like. > > GMail also uses the j/k duo for moving to the next or previous > thread ... er, "conversation" ... and n/p for next/previous message. > And, of course, / moves to the search box, just like / starts a search > in vim. As with vim and Google Reader, g is a frequently used modifier > in GMail -- ga for all mail, gs for starred, gc for contacts, etc. > > I tried the vimperator Firefox extension for a while. There were things > about it I really liked, but it makes working with most of Google's > services very difficult -- something about all the frames GMail, > GCalendar, GReader, etc., use. In the end, web browsing is probably one > thing that a mouse is somewhat useful for. > > -- > Michael M.
Vimperator is great. One way to get around key conflicts with Google apps is to create separate instances of them using Prism, which is another Firefox plug-in. I have Gmail and GCalendar "prism apps" that open as separate instances of Firefox (actually xulrunner) with vimperator disabled. On a somewhat related topic, I read that an unstable build of Chrome is available for Linux (http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel). On other operating systems, Chrome will let you convert a web site into a standalone application, so maybe it will do so on Linux. Of course, there is no vimperator for Chrome... yet. ;) Andrew ps, vim4life. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
