dexterleng

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by dexterleng 1y ago
Do you have any plans on launching a Swift framework?
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by dexterleng 4y ago
Major differences are that (1) Homerow does not show search results in a command palette fashion. YMMV but I prefer the UI to be minimalist. (2) you can disable search and have it work almost exactly like Vimium. I would also like to note t
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by dexterleng 4y ago
I made Homerow, it's the same idea as Vimium, but for the entire macOS user interface. https://homerow.app
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by dexterleng 4y ago
Love Vimium! Loved it so much I wanted it OS-wide. So I made Homerow, basically Vimium + Spotlight for the macOS user interface. https://homerow.app
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by dexterleng 6y ago
Haha, I wrote that on a whim. I'll come up with a better line.
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by dexterleng 6y ago
It actually technically could support Firefox/chrome, but I have disabled it because enabling accessibility on chrome breaks window managers. Also vimium will always be faster than vimac due to how slow the accessibility API is. I woul
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by dexterleng 6y ago
Yes, you can do so!
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by dexterleng 6y ago
It's very much like Vimium, which is nothing like Vim, so no. I see Vimium being referred to as "vim bindings" for chrome which I never got. Maybe someone could enlighten me on this.
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by dexterleng 6y ago
I have yet to try it out: https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck
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by dexterleng 6y ago
The app is written in Swift, not Electron. Vimac had major performance issues previously when traversing the UI Element tree of Electron/Webkit apps.
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by dexterleng 6y ago
I'm glad you like it! > cursor return to its old position after an action Will do!
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by dexterleng 6y ago
> it taking quite a lot of CPU Yes that is fixed. The reason for slow performance + high cpu usage on electron/webkit apps was just the sheer amount of mach ipc calls (from the many many <div> layers) needed to be made to fet
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by dexterleng 6y ago
Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level. I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes woul
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