cVim Google Chrome Browser Extension

What features does cVim add to Chrome?

Google/IMDB/Wikipedia/Amazon/Duckduckgo/Yahoo/Bing search completion.
Support for custom search engines.
History and Bookmark search/completion with bookmark folder support.
Caret/Visual mode.
Efficient link hints (with support for custom mappings).
Support for custom keyboard mappings.
Regex page search with highlighting.
Command bar with tab-completion.
Smooth scrolling.

Installing cVim

Acquire it by either:

Installing it through the Chrome web store.
Downloading the .zip file here
- Enabling it by going to the chrome://extensions URL.
- Checking developer mode.
- Then pointing Chrome to the unzipped folder via Load unpacked extensions.

Using cVim

Here’s how to use the addon including an example of the configuration settings and bindings by a group.

Settings

You can sync with a Gist file in the settings of the browser addon.

Keybindings

Note: Uppercase bindings are triggered with SHIFT + KEY as normal.

Basic

j,s – scroll down.
k,w – scroll up.
h – scroll left.
l – scroll right.

Page

gg – scroll to top of the current page.
G – scroll to the bottom of the current page.
zi – Zoom page in.
zo – Zoom page out
z0 – Zoom page to original size.

Links

f – open a link in a new tab by pressing the marked keys in the page elements.
G – scroll to the bottom of the current page. (SHIFT + g)
W – open a link in a new tab by pressing the marked keys in the page elements.
W – open a link in a new window by pressing the marked keys in the page elements.
mf – open multiple links in a new tab by pressing the marked keys in the page elements.
gy – Copy a URL from a link to to the clipboard.

Tabs

x – Close the current tab.
X – Open the last closed tab.
t – Alias for :tabnew .
a – An alias to :tabnew google .
< – Move current tab left.
> – Move current tab right.

Tab Navigation

gt, K, R – Navigate to the next tab.
gT, J, E – Navigate to the previous tab.
H, S – Go back a page in current tab.
L, D – Go forward a page in current tab.

Caret/Visual Mode

v – Toggle between visual/caret mode.
h,j, k, l – Move the caret position/extend the visual selection
y – Copies the current selection.
ESC – Exit visual mode to caret mode/exit caret mode to normal mode.

Keybindings Continued

Core

: – Open the command bar.

. – Repeat the last command entered.

r – Reload the current tab .

gR – Reload the current tab + local cache.

yy – Copy the URL of the current page to the clipboard.

Searching

/ open search bar

n – Next search result .

N – Previous search result.

b – Search through bookmarks.

Misc

I – An alias to :history that let’s you search through browser history.

zr – Restart Google Chrome.

gd – An alias to :chrome://downloads

P – Open the clipboard contents in a new tab.

gq – Stop the current tab from loading

Command Mode

Core

:tabnew(autocomplete) – Open a new tab with the typed/completed search.

:new (autocomplete) – Open a new window with the typed/completed search.

:open (autocomplete) – Open the typed/completed URL/google search.

:quit Close the current tab

:qall Close the current window

:duplicate – Duplicate the current tab.

Searching

:history (autocomplete) – Search through browser history.

:bookmarks (autocomplete) – Search through bookmarks.

Misc

:tabattach (autocomplete) – Move the current tab to another open window.

:tabdetach – Move the current tab to a new window.

:restore (autocomplete) – Restore a previously closed tab (newer versions of Chrome only).

:mksession – Create a new session from the current tabs in the active window.

cVim Tips

You can use @% in open commands to specify the current URL. For example, :open @% would essentially refresh the current page.
Prepend a number to the command to repeat that command N times.
Use the up/down arrows in command/find mode to navigate through previously
executed commands/searches.
You can set directives like reloadAllTabs in the settings to a binding.