How to select non-url text with Vimperator?

Asked 4/12, 2012 at 5:15 Answered 21/2, 2016 at 9:55

I'm using vimperator 3.5 with firefox 17. Everything goes well except non-url text selecting. It seems that nothing about this described in the official help document. Everytime when I want to select some non-url texts I have to use my mouse to finish it. It's really annoying.

Trilateration answered 4/12, 2012 at 5:15 Comment(0)

Jumping to the point to start your select

You can use / to find whatever you want to search and use n to go to specific locations.

Selecting

Once you are there, type c to enter CARET mode where you can use hjkl to move around and use v to select just like vim.

Coping

Also use y to yank. Happy vimp!

Jesselton answered 4/12, 2012 at 18:19 Comment(5)

Thanks a lot. It should added to vimperator documentation. – Lavin 24/10, 2013 at 3:41

As far as I know <C-c> for copying and <C-v> for pasting is also supported in the newer version of Vimperator if you're one of those who have these two in your muscle memory. + you can apply the advices above while in the insert mode by using <C-t> to get into TEXTAREA mode. – Swathe 27/2, 2014 at 23:5

It's in the documentation liberator://help/various on the various page. – Immerse 27/7, 2014 at 10:41

+1 for <C-t> in a input box. Never knew that before! :-) – Norinenorita 15/9, 2014 at 11:37

Yanking into clipboard works well, unless I try it in vimperator helpall page (Linux Ubuntu 14.04, FF34). On other pages it works. C-C does not work at all for me. – Sancho 7/12, 2014 at 9:41

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If you select wanted text with mouse, use

Y

to copy selected text.

Good cheatsheet:http://sheet.shiar.nl/vimperator

Individualist answered 21/2, 2016 at 9:55 Comment(2)

Then just use terminal browser like w3m – Individualist 27/3, 2017 at 15:37

See a proper answer above, an answer "use a different browser than the one that appears in the question" - is not acceptable, proposing using a mouse which contradicts the whole concept of vim - is not acceptable. – Lavella 17/12, 2017 at 9:58

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The answer by xxinerKYU is great but according to the reference page at liberator://help/various#various is seems that i is the key to caret mode.

Dc answered 6/12, 2014 at 18:9 Comment(3)

Really? In :helpall and in :usage it tells me, i enters "ignore" mode. c described in Uncategorized help section talks about caret mode. I recommend you remove your answer. – Sancho 7/12, 2014 at 9:46

on my system it says: "initial start of caret mode. Start with i, stop with <Esc>" for version 1.0. Could you please paste what it says on your installation and for which version? – Dc 7/12, 2014 at 19:52

When I :helpall and search for caret, it appears there twice in section "Uncategorized help" under "c" stating "Start caret mode. This mode resembles the Vim's Normal mode where you see a text cursor and can move around. If you want to select text in this mode, press v to start its Visual mode.". Using Vimperator: 3.8.3 (created: 2014/11/09 13:19:01) on FF34 on Ubuntu. – Sancho 8/12, 2014 at 10:30

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