Firebug.js and Vimperator key bindings

[jbelmont]

Hello,

I just added your vimperator-plugins and everything seems to work okay except that
when I open firebug with vimperator, it doesn't seem to have any of the standard
vimperator key bindings like h,j,k,l or page down, are these key bindings not supposed to work when firebug has focus.

[ervandew]

I use to have mappings to navigate inside of firebug but lacked the ability to focus elements and activate them which made the scrolling at least not of much use. I think an upgrade of firebug also broke them and I just didn't have time to fix to the issue, so I opted for trimming the plugin down to just managing the firebug state.

[jbelmont]

Either way the plugin is useful and I really like the vimperator-plugins, and how you set it up.
By the way I must say I am a bit of a fan of your work. I also have eclim which I think is an awesome
vim plugin.

[ervandew]

It's always good to hear that the time spent making these things available to others has been worth the effort :)

[tarruda]

Hi,

Is there any way to navigate between firebug and the current page? What about
other firebug mappings?

I appreciate any direction you can give, I'm new to vimperator and I'm really
enjoying it. The only thing I miss is integration with firebug so I'm using
mouse whenever I need to debug some app.

Thanks for your work

[ervandew]

I use to have a wincmd plugin for navigating between frames on a page and I also gave it the ability to navigate down into firebug and back up into the web page. However, vimperator's frame handling got a lot better and firebug changed many of its apis resulting in my trimming of the firebug plugin as mentioned in one of my previous comments. Between those two changes my wincmd plugin (which was pretty complicated unfortunately) lost its usefulness, so I scrapped it.

So currently my plugin doesn't provide any way to navigate to or around inside of firebug. It's certainly possible to make something like that work. If you'd like to see what my firebug plugin use to look like before all the api changes, you can view that here:
https://github.com/ervandew/vimperator-plugins/blob/85cb550fa04a0daadfedc42ef1b2cd01b61e3774/plugin/firebug.js

Unfortunately I don't have a copy of my wincmd plugin handy, but if you really want to see how I handled the navigating between firebug and the web page, I may be able to dig a copy up from my backups.

[tarruda]

@ervandew thanks for your help but I was looking for a simple solution, I guess I will just use the mouse with firebug. How do you currently use firebug/vimperator?

[ervandew]

I'll use the firebug.js bindings to open/close firebug, but for navigating around, I've resorted to using the mouse.