Normal mode is where you will spend most of your time.
You can scroll up and down pages using k
and j
, and left and right with h
and l
; gg
takes you to the top of the page and G
to the bottom.
You can repeat the last action with .
.
Many keypresses in normal mode take you into another mode. t
, for example, puts you into command mode prefilled with the command for opening a new tab; F
puts you into hinting mode to open a link in a background tab; gi
focuses the first text box on the page and allows you to press Tab
to switch between text boxes.
b
brings up a list of your current tabs. Press Tab
/Shift-Tab
to cycle through them and enter to select. You can also type to filter down the tabs based on their titles and URLs.w
opens URLs in new windowso
in the current tabt
in a new tabW
,O
,T
.s
lets you search easilybing
duckduckgo
or scholar
.yy
copies the current URL to your clipboardp
opens the clipboard contents as a web page, or searches for it, in the current tab. P
opens it in a new tab.;p
to copy a paragraph, and P
to search the internet for it.zi
,zo
,zz
zoom in, out and return to the default zoomAll the keys in normal mode are bound to commands; for example, j
is bound to scrolline 10
. If you are ever curious as to what a key sequence does in normal mode, you can simply use :bind [keys]
and the command line will tell you to which command they are bound.
The next page will explain how to use some of the various hint modes.