[NCLUG] [OT?] Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

Bill Thorson bill at tstorms.com
Fri Nov 5 09:57:33 MDT 2010


What about ymacs instead?

     http://www.ymacs.org/demo/

Bill

On 11/04/2010 03:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Those of you who like vi/Vim, the Chromium browser, and FreeBSD might be
> interested in what I have determined to be the current state of Vimium and
> Chromium on FreeBSD (on my laptop at least).
>
> 1. The Chromium browser is now in FreeBSD ports, at:
>
>      /usr/ports/www/chromium
>
> 2. I wrote about it a bit for a TechRepublic article, at:
>
>      http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1952
>
> 3. It looks like the best vi-like keybindings extension for Chromium right now
> is the Vimium extension.  Unfortunately, Vimium will not install on the FreeBSD
> port of Chromium from Google's extension gallery.
>
> 4. I fiddled with it a bit last night, and kludged a local copy of Vimium so it
> will install on my FreeBSD system, then wrote about the experience:
>
>      http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2010.308.12.13.14
>
> 5. Sadly, Vimium still is not working perfectly here.  It installs, but has
> some annoying quirks.
>
> (crossposted to a couple of mailing lists in Florida)
>
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