Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

["Adam Wołk" <netprobe@gmail.com>]

Dnia 21-07-2009 o 21:33:33 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>  
napisał(a):


> There are some users of Emacs (like me) that never use these key
> bindings since we prefer Viper. So we would really want a combination
> of vi+emacs keybindings in other applications too.

I saw this question recently on the conkeror mailing list.
It seems that there are no ready to use bindings or modes for people who  
prefer vim key bindings but I believe that this could be implemented (at  
least partially?).

Below are some quotes from the conkeror mailing list archives:

quote from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.conkeror/1580 :
> Some vi-like search bindings:
>
>   define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "/", "isearch-forward");
>   define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "?", "isearch-backward");
>   define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "n",  
> "isearch-continue-forward");
>   define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "N",  
> "isearch-continue-backward");
>
> The commands isearch-continue-[forward/backward] are bound on S and R
> by default, and you may just want to use those unless you are planning
> to make a whole new binding set.
>
>> open link in new buffer with F instead of C-u f
>
>   define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "F", "follow-new-buffer");


quote from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.conkeror/1587 :
>> Thanks for the tips. I understand that conkeror could be made to behave  
>> like
>> vimperator by changing keybindings. What I actually wanted to know is  
>> if it
>> is possible to make conkeror "completely" behave like Vimperator "only"  
>> by
>> changing the keybindings or does one need to do more than that (for  
>> example,
>> some deeper hacking)?
>
> Changing key bindings will likely get you much of the way to vimperator,
> but it will indeed not get you an exact clone of vimperator.  For one
> thing, not all UI decisions are represented as key binding choices, and
> for another, there are some features in vimperator not supported in
> Conkeror (though also some things in Conkeror not supported in
> Vimperator).
>
> I would think that changing the key bindings would be mostly sufficient,
> though.