VVimpulation

A Firefox add-on which provides keyboard navigation like Vim

Permissions

VVimpulation uses the following WebExtensions API permissions.

• bookmarks: Open bookmarks by open console commands.
• clipboardRead: Paste values from the clipboard by pasteValue command.
• clipboardWrite: Copy texts to the clipboard by yankCurrentURL and etc.
• downloads: Download links by downloadLink, and manage download items by download console command.
• find: Highlight search results by search commands.
• history: Open URLs from browser history by open console commands, and manage the history by history console command.
• sessions: Reopen tabs and windows by undoTab and undoWindow console commands, and save window size by snapping window commands.
• storage: Save options, registers, and console command history.
• tabs: Get tab information by buffer and undoTab console commands.
• webNavigation: Manage child frames, and overwrite error pages.

VVimpulation also use all host permissions in order to get search suggestions in open console commands.

Release Notes

1.5

Command

• Add contextmenu command.
• Add bunload console command.
• Add bdelete console command.

Enhancement

• Reset command key sequence if hint target is changed.
• Suppress browser popup to overlap with console.
• Use original URL with toConsoleModeWithURL in overwritten error page.

Bugfix

• Fix the issue that console candidate list does not sometimes disappeared.
• Fix failure to overwrite error page.
• Fix broken search selection commands.
• Fix normal mode command count.

1.4

Command

• Add nop command, which does nothing.
• Add mark and jumpToMark command. These are no longer implicit normal mode's commands.
• Add recordMacro and playMacro. These are no longer implicit normal mode's commands, but which are available in only normal mode.
• Add viewSource command.
• Add deleteCharForward command.

Enhancement

• Enable to wrap source lines on a source page.
• Check patterns of key sequence on the option page.
• Ignore Document not cached error
• Enable to change the mode to insert by user click.

Bugfix

• Update error message after removing key bindings on the option page.
• Fix the issue that fixedFocusin causes scroll in some pages.
• Not show candidates when console is closing.

1.3

Command

• Add extendSelection search and continueSearch for visual mode.
• Add toConsoleModeWithSelection command.
• Add pasteValue command for console mode.
• Add showHistoryList command for console mode.
• Add marks console command.
• Add hint console command.

Enhancement

• Enable to search text on only the current frame by search commands.
• Apply decodeURI to the URL of toConsoleModeWithURL.
• Restore focus when hint filter finish.
• Enhance console candidate filtering.
• Exclude SSL unknown issuer error from the overwriteErrorPage target.
• Change default value of overwriteErrorPage, which has some issues.
• Implement console autocomplete.
• Enable to select/undo tab or window by text on buffer/undo commands.
• Check current mode to avoid invalid mode changing.
• Display all attributes except style by showElementInfo.
• Ignore hidden input elements for toInsertMode commands.
• Show message when no hints are found.
• Now hint highlighting does not interfere mouse operation.
• Defer console creation to avoid broken loading for some pages.
• Exclude elements under scrollbar from hint target.
• Handle key events in top frame when the mode is hint. This enhance the response performance.
• Prevent animations for hint highlighting.
• Reduce communication with the background script when changing to normal mode.
• Prevent scrollbar occurrence by hint highlighting.
• Invoke compose command synchronously if all subcommands are synchronous.
• Enable to activate label elements by click commands

Bugfix

• Enable background commands to use arguments.
• Close the filter console even when mode changing due to tab select.
• Exclude console frame from hint target.
• Fix command ambiguous error message.
• Fix errors when selecting document node.

1.2

Command

• Add showElementInfo command.
• Add toggleTransparency hint command.
• Add toggleTabPinning command.
• Add toggleTabMute command.

Enhancement

• Distinguish key patterns with shift and other modifiers from the patterns without shift.
• Exclude elements on edge of viewpoint from hint target.
• Change to the normal mode from the hint more smoothly.
• Highlight a current active hint target element.
• Prevent page auto focus to steal a focus from the console.
• Block extendSelection always traverse the sub tree under body or html node.
• Avoid to set caret at the head of a non-displayed text.
• Generate mousedown and mouseup events in smartOpen commands.
• Optimize the speed of displaying hint labels for huge pages.
• Handle keyup events in order to suppress keyup event actions defined by pages.
• Finish visual mode when other frame is focused.
• Show hint label on the position not covered by the ancestors.
• Change hint label color.
• Check ancestor covering for area elements.
• Add tr into default code hint pattern.

Bugfix

• Calculate frame areas taking into account the frame padding and border.
• Fix the timing to do automatic killHover.
• Fix the issue that the count of repeatLastCommand may be reset.
• Fix the mousemove target of mousein / mouseout commands.
• Fix calculation for poly shape area's rectangle.
• Fix that tiny-macro can not record 0.
• Fix error page when the URL has ampersands.

1.1

Command

• Deprecate findNext/findPrevious/findSelectionForward/findSelectionBackward command names. Add searchNext/searchPrevious/searchSelectionForward/searchSelectionBackward commands instead.
• Add execCommand command.
• Add search command.

Enhancement

• Add p tag to the default code hint pattern.
• Add the word "target" to the description of commands using a target.
• Keep insert mode even when other window is focused.
• Enable to repeat last console command execution.
• Enable to scroll by count value pixels.
• Not export empty key mapping entries to a options file.
• Scroll to new key mapping entry when it is added in the options page.

Bugfix

• Fix block extendSelection for the case that document's body has text children.
• Fix that selection may be cleared by caret display.
• Fix extracting error URL in error page.
• Finish hint mode on all frames when one frame changes the mode.
• Fix that some commands use count incorrectly.
• Remove search highlighting if no text is matched.
• Fix that setCaret can set a caret on comment node.
• Fix viewSelectionSource when selecting only text in a HTMLElement.
• Fix snapping window size.