Pdf Reader With Vim Keybindings For Mac Os X

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  2. Does anyone know a pdf reader with vim keybindings for MAC OSX?? I've been tried to install mupdf but it return segmentation fault when open pdf file. Please give me some advice. Update 2017-1-8: Apparently mupdf works on mac os x. To launch it, all you have to do is typing mupdf-x11, not mupdf.

I'm learning Vim and with it came the urge to use 'hjkl' and friends on every other program, including mouse operated programs like browsers.

How can I use these keyboard shortcuts, or something similar?

I'm using Linux.

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25 Answers

Off the top of my head...

  • Vimperator for Firefox.
  • Awesome, WMII, Xmonad or ion3 window manager.
  • Evince supports hjkl.
  • vifm filemanager
  • there are vi keybindings for readline, which enables them for many terminal apps
  • xzgv image viewer
sluukkonensluukkonen

Gmail and several of the other Google apps natively support Vi-like motions.

Also, you might want to try Vimperator and, most definitely, Nethack!

Marcel GuzmanMarcel Guzman

Give scrotwm a try. It's a tiling window manager with vim-like bindings by default, written by coders who use vim!

And vimperator for Firefox makes my life much, much easier.

For Bourne-like shells (ksh, bash, ...) try set -o vi to make your command line use vi keys.

dwcdwc
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File manager with vi movement key-bindings and much more: ranger.

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Zathura is a nice and small pdf reader and with built-in vim-like commands. It feels like you opened your pdf document in vim. (e.g.: the ':' button brings up the same prompt.)

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Others:

  • ViEmu: plugin for Visual Studio, Word, Outlook, SQL Server
  • KomodoEdit: developer's editor
  • AbiWord: word processor
  • Editra: developer's editor
  • VimPlugin: plug Vim into Eclipse. I couldn't get it working under Windows or Mac OS X.
  • Eclim: another Vim plugin for Eclipse.
  • Viper: Old Vi emulator for Emacs
  • Evil: Recent Vim emulator for Emacs
  • IdeaVim: Vim emulator for the IntelliJ family of editors, RubyMine, PyCharm, etc.
George V. ReillyGeorge V. Reilly
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If you use Eclipse, then viPlugin is the best vi-like editor for it.

I always stick the following two lines in my /etc/inputrc (or ~/.inputrc if I don't have root access):

EvanEvan
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Viper works, but if you're used to Vim, it is lacking a lot of keybindings that will end up messing you up. Theres also jvi for Netbeans, which I find more complete than the Eclipse plugins. Kate also recently added Vi-emulation mode

Vim key bindings

I also consider xmonad, to be superior to Awesome, Ion etc.

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Lightweight (30k zpi) FimFx for Firefox - does less than Vimperator, but for a good reason.

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Check out:

  • dwb — a web browser
  • ranger — a terminal-based file manager
  • Zathura — a PDF viewer
  • Vimium — a vim keybindings extension for Chrome(ium)
  • Evil — the (in)famous Emacs plugin that turns Emacs into Vim, if you ever feel the need to do that
  • i3, xmonad, dwm — tiling window managers that are controlled from the keyboard
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You can use xmodmap to make win+hjkl to work as arrow keys.
Make a file named Xmodmap. Add the following content:

Load it using xmodmap Xmodmap
Note: Run xev to find out keycode for win key. 133 is just an example.

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yanivyaniv

Qutebrowser hasn't been mentioned, which is much better than the plugins.

ToothrotToothrot

I used Ion as a window manager on Linux for a while. It uses keybindings similar to Vim to move between windows, if I recall correctly. It won't make your apps support hjkl movement, but the window manager is a place to start.

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Apart from the already mentioned, you could also bind those keys to left... nd so on (with ahk). I've also noticed that several web apps use that movement keys (gmail, greader, ....)

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Try keynav, for controlling the mouse pointer using your keyboard.

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If you use mpd for listening to music, then I strongly recommend PIM

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Google Reader respects jk keybindings. I'm sure there are more that they support - feel free to edit my answer.

Jeffrey JoseJeffrey Jose
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Shortcut Manager extension for chrome.

You can use something like this to configure basic vim movement keys:

Other useful snippets:

PonyEarsPonyEars
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Mutt - mail client - can be configured to move hjkl, i configure some more vim keys. take some time to configure as it's a bit different from other mail clients. Mutt is not Muttator, is a terminal GUI application.

toshitoshi

cVim for chrome is awesome. I am currently using it.https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

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(my answer to that question is an AutoHotKey script that will even get you proper search functionality with /, n, and N, but admittedly I haven't verified a port to Linux or Mac yet)

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Adobe Acrobat Reader is currently one of the good PDF readers available on the Linux platform.xpdf and Evince do their job well, but Acrobat's display seems to be better.

I am used to the Vim editor and I want Vim navigation features (using h,j,k, and l to move around) in Adobe Reader. How do I do that?

I know Evince offers that kind of navigation.

Senthil KumaranSenthil Kumaran

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I have set vim like navigation in Adobe Reader using AutoHotKey. You need to configure key mapping to be active only when Adobe Reader is the current active window so that this key binding does not affect other applications. The following modified AutoHotKey.ahk script does that

The ahk_class name can be determined by running AutoIt3 Window Spy.

The only drawback is during Search/Find operation in Adobe Reader. If your search text contains h/j/k/l it will be interpreted as arrow keys. You can overcome this limitation by suspending the autokey or by clicking Pause Script from the taskbar notification area.Better approach to overcome this limitation is using uppercase letters( HJKL ). Since adobe searches case insensitive, you search will cover hjkl letters too. for instance taKe matches with take

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manav m-nmanav m-n

As far as I know, this isn't possible. There is a project under way to create a pdf viewer that has a vim-like interface, but although the development seems to be quite active, it has a way to go yet. If that's of any interest, you can find it here (versions are available for Linux and Windows, although the development is focused on Windows):

Otherwise, I think you're stuck with evince or using the cursor keys.

Al.Al.

This AutoHotKey script I wrote supports hjkl, gg, G, C-e, C-y, C-f, and C-b, along with /, n, and N for searching. Pressing / takes you into search mode, and Esc, Enter, and Ctrl-[ will put you back in normal mode. If things aren't working like they should, try pressing Escape to get back into normal mode.

Please leave short bug reports or suggestions in the comments!

There are some known issues with holding down the Ctrl movement commands for long periods that have to do with AutoHotKey not being able to translate the input fast enough, but the non Ctrl movement commands shouldn't have this problem.

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Linux or Mac OS X to be able to provide solutions for them as well. If anyone manages to port this to other operating systems, please either add your own answer or suggest an edit to this one with instructions. :)

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I'm not sure if that is possible.

But you should try Zathura, which works very well and tries to mimic vim - it even has a command line mode, triggered by :.

mMontumMontu

In Linux, there is an alternative to AutoHotkey which is called AutoKey, and here is my solution:

(I just made it under Ubuntu 14.04 with AutoKey although it hasn't been updated for a long time)

  • Install Autokey first. Download it at https://code.google.com/p/autokey/downloads/list, extract it and follow README to compile and install it (I chose Qt version)
  • run autokey, either from Launcher, or run it in terminal at /usr/bin/autokey-qt
  • to use j to move down, just
    • create a new phrase
    • name it mendeley - up or whatever meaningful
    • in the phrase box (the large text box – which is actually an editor !) , type <up>
    • assign j as Hotkey using Set button
    • set Window Filter by clicking the last Set button
    • Save and test it in your favorate PDF viewer (mine is Mendeley because it supports highlighting and annotation)
  • and I also made k to move up, space to page down, and shift + space to page up.

Ref:

  • Autokey Offcial Site
SmilingSunSmilingSun

Sounds like a job for IronAHK!

I know basic hotkey functionality like this works, but some of the more complex commands are not yet supported by IronAHK.

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Meh, this question is one year old, I'll give it a try nevertheless.

Slightly off topic, because I don't know how to do it in acroread, but you might want to try Apvlv:

'Apvlv is a PDF/DJVU/UMD Viewer Under Linux/WIN32 and its behaviour [is] like Vim.'

Pdf Reader With Vim Keybindings For Mac Os X Default

If you're willing to leave acroread, this pdf-reader will give you lots of vim-love.

Vim Key Bindings

Apvlv is based on libpoppler (same back-end as evince and now also xpdf), so you might encounter the same display issues that you mentioned. But it certainly fires up more quickly than acroread, which is the slowest in the industry! Good luck.

Disclaimer: I once wrote a piece of documentation for this project.

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