Pterosaur is a Pentadactyl/Vim extension that gives you the full power of Vim in each Firefox text field.
Pterosaur is at more of an alpha/proof-of-concept stage right now, but it's already somewhat useful.
##Requirements
- Pterosaur requires Pentadactyl and Vim.
- Pterosaur assumes you are using Linux. It might work on OS X.
##Setup Step 1: Install pterosaur using your Vim plugin-manager. For pathogen-compatible managers:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone http://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur
Step 2: Add pterosaur.js to ~/.pentadactyl/plugins/
mkdir ~/.pentadactyl/plugins
cd ~/.pentadactyl/plugins
ln -s ~/.vim/bundle/pterosaur.js pterosaur.js
Step 3: Pterosaur's full-vim editing is disabled by default. Type :set fullvim in firefox to enable it.
Step 4: Your default vim setup will need a mapping to get out of vim's insert mode, since <ESC> is handled by pentadactyl (and currently broken).
If you haven't set up something like inoremap kj <ESC>, you might want to consider it. This mappping alone will change your life.
##How it works Pterosaur runs an actual vim instance in the background and routes keystrokes through vim.
##Bugs
- No mouse support
- Escape leaves textboxes while in insert mode, but does nothing in normal mode.
- Pterosaur sometimes eats the first key you enter into a textbox
- Some editors (like github outside of zen-mode) do weird things with text that break pterasaur. Pterosaur needs to be changed so that it falls through to normal editing in these cases.
- If you map another key to /, :, or ? in vim's normal mode, pterosaur won't show you the ex command you are typing until you hit enter.
##License AGPL v3 (I'm considering changing this)