Add VI bindings to select a result

get-state

There are a lot of extensions that currently allow using VI bindings on a browser like Tridactyl.

They have a selection mode that you can enter using a key to enter "hint-mode", and then use the displayed hint (usually a unique letter combination) to click on an item/link.

Right now, when you want to select a result you have to spam j.

A lot of extensions implement this, but not a lot of search engines.

Tridactyl
Vimperator
Pentadactyl
Vimum

Implementing the selection/hint mode will allow users to use the built in bindings instead. It helps in cases where users would like to scroll and then select something further along using the keyboard.

Vlad

@z64 this is more your territory

tschoesi

What do you mean by

Right now, when you want to select a result you have to spam j.

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I'm using vimium with kagi and it's working flawlessly.

get-state

tschoesi
Kagi comes with it's own vi-like bindings. You can use 'j' and 'k' to navigate down/up, 'g' to go to the top, '/' to search, 's' to open the modal etc.

If you're using the vimium plugin, you lose out on the kagi specific bindings (which are useful, so I've disabled the browser plugin on Kagi).

With only the kagi bindings, you can't select whatever is on your screen if you scroll (no hint-mode). So you have to repeatedly press 'j' to get to where you want.

Value7609
Yes. It mostly does work, but with both enabled at the same time there will be conflicts in the bindings. There are some really cool Kagi specific bindings that you end up being unable to use. Like adjusting the website ranking using the kagi keybindings (opening the modal), which no longer work if you use a plugin.

Might be a small amount of users who want such functionality. There is a lot of duplicate functionality here like you suggested... But I personally think it's a nice QOL update

Value7609

I don't think that this is something that Kagi should implement. They already have the vim keybindings. And if people want to have that hint-mode they can just install the extensions? I have Tridactyl installed and it works perfectly fine.

tschoesi

get-state With Vimium you can disable specific keys only for certain websites. So just disable the keys that Kagi uses.