[qutebrowser] tab navigation keys

John Lane john at lane.uk.net
Tue May 30 15:51:35 CEST 2017


On 30/05/17 13:20, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> 
> Because J is the vim-keybinding to go down, and it makes a lot of sense
> to map "down" to "next"/"right".
> 
> Also, with vertical tabs (:set tabs position left) it'd be confusing if
> J/down would go up.
>
I think that is a good point. I hadn't tried moving the tabs to the
left. Have just done so although I am worried it will lead to bad habits
- just how many tabs will fit down there!!! :)

> 
> Not entirely. It's what dwb does, and qutebrowser's keybindings are
> designed to be compatible with dwb's, because it originally was a
> replacement for many stranded dwb users (such as myself).
>
that too is a fair enough, and probably the primary reason!

>> Also, any reason why you never implemented ':x' as well as ':wq' which
>> is, I believe, standard vi ?
> 
> :wq is aliased, :x isn't. Generally because qutebrowser is not vi, and
> with some things it just doesn't make sense to try to shoehorn them into
> qutebrowser. Even :wq is questionable - what do you expect "write" to do
> in a browser?
> 
My assumption was that :wq exited saving session/settings whereas :q
didn't (haven't checked this though). And I have years' muscle-memory
calling for :x over :wq. I have aliased this myself in qutebrowser.conf.

Cheers for the response.
John




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