walseb/exwm-firefox-evil

vi-like firefox bindings built on top of exwm-firefox-core

exwm-firefox-evil - Evil-mode keys in firefox

exwm-firefox-evil makes firefox’s control scheme modal. It uses vi-like keys and doesn’t require any addons. It does this by implementing exwm-firefox-core which sends fake keys to firefox using exwm.

To get link-hints you have to download a link-hint addon to firefox and define a new function to send that key to firefox on call like those in exwm-firefox-core.

Install

(require 'exwm-firefox-evil)
;; Auto enable exwm-firefox-evil-mode on all firefox buffers
(add-hook 'exwm-manage-finish-hook 'exwm-firefox-evil-activate-if-firefox)

You also need to add escape to exwm-input-prefix-keys so that escape is passed to emacs instead of firefox.

(dolist (k `(
	     escape
	     ))
  (cl-pushnew k exwm-input-prefix-keys))

Keep in mind that this affects all exwm-applications. If you want to get your escape key back in those applications you could bind the escape key to (exwm-input--fake-key 'escape) in your own minor mode that activates in all exwm-buffers just like I did in this package. For the conditional statement to avoid firefox buffers, just negate the checks in the function exwm-firefox-evil-activate-if-firefox

Know bugs

Mouse clicks only works in insert state

exwm-firefox-evil's Issues

Wierd edge cases causes package to not work

Sometimes this package just stops working. I haven't been able to track down the reason yet but will try to track any progress here

Mouse doesn't work in normal-state

As mentioned here, mouse clicks don't work in normal-state. This is because normal-state in this package runs this: (setq-local exwm-input-line-mode-passthrough t) which disables all exwm binds. The solution to this would be to send fake mouse presses in exwm-firefox-evil-mode-map when clicking, etc.

I will put this issue on my todo list as it has annoyed me too, so it will probably be fixed in a week or two. In the meantime, if anyone wants to submit a pull request for this, please do!

Make escape not also press tab in firefox

It's annoying how escape always presses tab, but it's necessary to be able to escape the search bar after you press "o". This can be fixed by either finding a firefox keybind which ONLY escapes the search bar when pressed and nothing else, or by making the buggy experimental branch of this repo stable, which solves this problem by using the minibuffer to search instead of the actual firefox search-bar