Disable vimperator input text box focussing
I’m a huge fan of vi and any kind of software that incorporates vi-like behavior (emacs users can safely ignore this article). That’s why I intensively use the vimperator addon in Firefox. You could say internet browsing wouldn’t be the same without it.
But there’s this one minor annoyance I always encounter while using vimperator: vimperator always focusses on the first input text box it comes across on a web site. Some people may like this behavior but I certainly don’t. I have google’s search engine set as my home page and the search box always steals the focus. Usually I just want to fire a vimporator command to navigate to another site and entering insert mode because of this focus stealing certainly hinders me. Now I have finally narrowed it down to the setting that controls this behavior: focuscontent. Expanding ~/.vimperatorrc with
set focuscontentdisables input text box focussing. It certainly is a huge improvement. Yet another annoyance solved. Hop to the next one.
Thanks for this! I used to have this in my .vimperatorrc and couldn’t recall the setting.
It just baffles me that, even as late as my Vimperator 2.3.1 (on Mac), this is still not a default setting! If I’m going to the effort of overriding the UI for every Web page I visit, shouldn’t they assume that I would like to remain in normal mode consistently, until I explicitly change modes?! Kinda feel like filing a bug for this now, but I imagine there’s already been debate/consensus on this already…