qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5

skanky · 2015-09-22 15:08:01

Remember also that, by default open and open in a new tab are mapped to o and O respectively.

navi_se · 2015-09-22 22:09:43

Yep, that's it, thanks . The aw after the ! refers to the quickmark that you can save in qute?$

The Compiler · 2015-09-23 06:21:22

navi_se wrote:

Yep, that's it, thanks . The aw after the ! refers to the quickmark that you can save in qute?$

No - it's part of the search term sent to DuckDuckGo, and ddg resolves those (calling them bangs).

You can however define custom search engines in the config under [searchengines] and then use something like :open g foo (assuming you added a searchengine g).

th3voic3 · 2015-09-23 06:35:33

I tested this shortly and liked it, but it is missing one essential feature for me personally. One that all or most minimal browsers are lacking. I want to set temporary and permanent cookie and script settings per domain. Basically like the various cookie manager addons for Firefox and No-Script.

The Compiler · 2015-09-23 07:55:29

th3voic3 wrote:

I tested this shortly and liked it, but it is missing one essential feature for me personally. One that all or most minimal browsers are lacking. I want to set temporary and permanent cookie and script settings per domain. Basically like the various cookie manager addons for Firefox and No-Script.

Not only you! See #27 (per domain settings). Unfortunately there are some more urgent things to do before that...

navi_se · 2015-09-23 09:11:10

The Compiler wrote:

navi_se wrote:
Yep, that's it, thanks . The aw after the ! refers to the quickmark that you can save in qute?$
No - it's part of the search term sent to DuckDuckGo, and ddg resolves those (calling them bangs).
You can however define custom search engines in the config under [searchengines] and then use something like :open g foo (assuming you added a searchengine g).

Sorry for the silly question: how do you add searchengine other than the DEFAULT one? I've managed to finde the config pages and section from the help, but I don't know how to change it. I take it that there must be a conf file, but I couldn't read its location from the help (maybe it would be worth to add a mention to it on top of the config page? If I have not missed it, that is).

Loving your work so far!

karlch · 2015-09-23 09:47:18

You can edit ~/.config/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.conf in your favourite editor. As The Compiler wrote there is a section [searchengines]. The syntax used is simple and you can see how it is used in the DEFAULT searchengine. Then just define any search engine you would like to use, I e.g. use:

w = https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/{}

PS @The Compiler: absolutely great work, I've been using qutebrowser as my main browser for quite a while now and can't imagine going back.

The Compiler · 2015-09-23 10:31:27

I recommend using the :set command instead, as editing the config file by hand comes with some gotchas until I get around to rewriting all the config stuff.

That'd be something like :set searchengines w https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/{} for example.

karlch · 2015-09-23 10:35:47

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! At the moment I only edit the config per hand and I have disabled auto-save-config, never had an issue and I think I have played with every part of it (:

navi_se · 2015-09-23 11:18:06

Both adding it in the .conf file or using set I get the wrong result.
Either in the .conf

 g = http://www.google.com/?q={}

or using set

 :set searchengines g http://www.google.com/?q={}

then doing

 :open g search-term

leads me to the main page of google with the word typed in the search box. I then have to launch the search. How do I get the same behaviour of ddg ?

karlch · 2015-09-23 11:27:05

Try https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q={}
Works fine for me

navi_se · 2015-09-23 11:33:23

Thanks

TheGasolineWillBeOurs · 2015-09-24 17:05:17

Is there a plan to add folders for bookmarks? This is the thing that stops me right now from seriously trying to use qutebrowser as my default browser. What I've seen so far looks amazing! Great work!

navi_se · 2015-09-25 15:48:55

Another question: is there a way to easily import customization from ~/.vimrc ? That would be pretty convenient, in particular the simple stuff like noremap configuration.

chickenPie4tea · 2015-09-26 07:58:01

th3voic3 wrote:

I tested this shortly and liked it, but it is missing one essential feature for me personally. One that all or most minimal browsers are lacking. I want to set temporary and permanent cookie and script settings per domain. Basically like the various cookie manager addons for Firefox and No-Script.

The big thing missing for me is a formfiller, that's why DWB is still the best "smaller" browser for me, just makes login to sites much more convenient. How do you guys manage without one? cut and paste, keepass, memory

navi_se · 2015-09-26 09:24:40

Indeed, it would be a great addition. I am essentialy using qute (or other "small" browser previousl) for work and general search, but if I am slacking-off/doing banking/amazon etc. I turn on chromium which has all my login and form infos.

skanky · 2015-09-26 20:36:01

chickenPie4tea wrote:

th3voic3 wrote:
I tested this shortly and liked it, but it is missing one essential feature for me personally. One that all or most minimal browsers are lacking. I want to set temporary and permanent cookie and script settings per domain. Basically like the various cookie manager addons for Firefox and No-Script.
The big thing missing for me is a formfiller, that's why DWB is still the best "smaller" browser for me, just makes login to sites much more convenient. How do you guys manage without one? cut and paste, keepass, memory

Pass and passmenu for passwords. Memory for everything else.

The Compiler · 2015-09-27 19:46:13

TheGasolineWillBeOurs wrote:

Is there a plan to add folders for bookmarks? This is the thing that stops me right now from seriously trying to use qutebrowser as my default browser. What I've seen so far looks amazing! Great work!

At some point, yeah - though it's not exactly a priority. I wonder, how would you use folders exactly, i.e. what do folders give you that using a quickmark with foo/bar as name doesn't?

navi_se wrote:

Another question: is there a way to easily import customization from ~/.vimrc ? That would be pretty convenient, in particular the simple stuff like noremap configuration.

I never thought of that! A script to do so would certainly be appreciated, but I don't know how well it'd work out, as an editor and a browser are kind of different things

chickenPie4tea wrote:

The big thing missing for me is a formfiller, that's why DWB is still the best "smaller" browser for me, just makes login to sites much more convenient. How do you guys manage without one? cut and paste, keepass, memory

I use KeePassX and copy-paste, but some integration indeed would be nice - I plan to work on that as soon as there's a plugin API, see #30 and #180. There's also an userscript work-in-progress which integrates pass: #873

mbab · 2015-09-29 10:14:37

Would it be possible 'navigate increment' (incdec_number function) work on full url not only path.

Number are often in query string rather then path.

Any way thanks for Your work.

navi_se · 2015-09-29 11:36:47

The Compiler wrote:

navi_se wrote:
Another question: is there a way to easily import customization from ~/.vimrc ? That would be pretty convenient, in particular the simple stuff like noremap configuration.
I never thought of that! A script to do so would certainly be appreciated, but I don't know how well it'd work out, as an editor and a browser are kind of different things

I have peeked at the code on github and I can understand why that is the case. I was thinking mainly of the very easy stuff such as the key remapping. That should be reasonable to perform (although my coding is not nearly good enough, especially when it comes to python). The thing that frustrates my a bit is that I have a few critical change in my vim keyboard layout, and having to switch between them when I come to the browser slightly confuses my hands.

E.g. I have shifted the hjkl to jkl; which has plenty of advantages and I also have rebound tab to behave like esc so I don't have to reach too far. I would be willing to help and work this out, but I would probably require some assistance in understanding your code, so I dunno if any support from me could lead to any (short term) advantage. Long term I might be able to collaborate more though

andmars · 2015-09-29 14:38:37

I updated to python 3.5 from [testing] and rebuilt qutebrowser-git and it's deps. Now it crashes in a loop and wants to constantly send a bug-report:

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
INFO: Request to www.googletagservices.com blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to pagead2.googlesyndication.com blocked by host blocker.
ERROR: Uncaught exception
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
WARNING: /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qutebrowser/utils/version.py:165: PendingDeprecationWarning: dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated in Python 3.5
and will be removed in Python 3.7
  osver = ', '.join([e for e in platform.dist() if e])

ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
INFO: Request to pagead2.googlesyndication.com blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to tags.expo9.exponential.com blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to evania.adspirit.de blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to evania.adspirit.de blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to static.plista.com blocked by host blocker.
INFO: Request to www.google-analytics.com blocked by host blocker.
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
INFO: Request to static.plista.com blocked by host blocker.
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set
INFO: Request to ad.adnet.de blocked by host blocker.
ERROR: ARGH, there was an exception while the crash dialog is already shown:
TypeError: readData() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SystemError: PyEval_EvalFrameEx returned a result with an error set

Last edited by andmars (2015-09-29 14:48:18)

The Compiler · 2015-09-29 18:56:59

mbab wrote:

Would it be possible 'navigate increment' (incdec_number function) work on full url not only path.
Number are often in query string rather then path.

Any way thanks for Your work.

This was actually changed in a PR, but I agree adding the query probably makes sense. Do you have some real-world examples by any chance? I reopened #850 to track this.

navi_se wrote:

The Compiler wrote:
navi_se wrote:
Another question: is there a way to easily import customization from ~/.vimrc ? That would be pretty convenient, in particular the simple stuff like noremap configuration.
I never thought of that! A script to do so would certainly be appreciated, but I don't know how well it'd work out, as an editor and a browser are kind of different things
I have peeked at the code on github and I can understand why that is the case. I was thinking mainly of the very easy stuff such as the key remapping. That should be reasonable to perform (although my coding is not nearly good enough, especially when it comes to python). The thing that frustrates my a bit is that I have a few critical change in my vim keyboard layout, and having to switch between them when I come to the browser slightly confuses my hands.
E.g. I have shifted the hjkl to jkl; which has plenty of advantages and I also have rebound tab to behave like esc so I don't have to reach too far. I would be willing to help and work this out, but I would probably require some assistance in understanding your code, so I dunno if any support from me could lead to any (short term) advantage. Long term I might be able to collaborate more though

I don't see how this requires any understanding of the code - you'd just have a standalone script which writes a qutebrowser config file. Or did you think about something different? I'm always happy to help people getting started, the best place to get help is probably the IRC channel (#qutebrowser on Freenode).

andmars wrote:

I updated to python 3.5 from [testing] and rebuilt qutebrowser-git and it's deps. Now it crashes in a loop and wants to constantly send a bug-report: ...

I fixed this earlier today, so things should work out better when you update (or switch to -git). I plan to release a new version ASAP, hopefully somewhen this week.

andmars · 2015-09-29 20:41:31

The Compiler wrote:

I fixed this earlier today, so things should work out better when you update (or switch to -git). I plan to release a new version ASAP, hopefully somewhen this week.

Yes, after re-building from AUR qutebrowser is running fine again. Time for me to finally donate a few bucks to your good work.

karlch · 2015-09-29 20:58:22

I find the script to import mappings from the vimrc an interesting topic although I have no use for it personally. So I came up with this little script which basically greps for the mappings and then tries to substitute them in the keys.conf using vim. It will ask the user for confirmation as not all mappings are surely useful in qutebrowser (or the plain cut might not deliver the excpected result...).

#! /bin/bash

# Safety first
cp ~/.config/qutebrowser/keys.conf ~/.config/qutebrowser/keys.conf.bak
# Catch mappings from vimrc
cat ~/.vimrc | grep "map\|noremap\|nmap\|nnoremap" > ~/tmp.txt

# Run a substitution in vim for the mappings
IFS=$'\n'
for i in $(cat ~/tmp.txt)
do
    cur=$(echo $i | cut -d " " -f3)
    new=$(echo $i | cut -d " " -f2)
    vim +"%s /    ${cur}$/    ${new}TMP/ceI" +"wq" ~/.config/qutebrowser/keys.conf
done

# Remove the TMP which stops remapping recursively
vim +"%s /TMP$//" +"wq" ~/.config/qutebrowser/keys.conf
# Remove the file used for catching the mappings
rm ~/tmp.txt

I only tested it with a dummyvimrc including the four mappings equivalent to the ones mentioned by @nevi_se:

nnoremap j h
nnoremap k j
nnoremap l k
nnoremap ö l

The script almost definitely has flaws (I am rather new to shell scripting) and will have lots of empty runs (e.g. leader mappings, function mappings in the vimrc) but it could be a basis to work on. Have fun

EDIT: forgot to replace a testing file with the actual qutebrowser keys.conf

Last edited by karlch (2015-10-03 09:29:49)

navi_se · 2015-09-29 22:44:50

Neato! I was previously getting confused, as I couldn't find the file keys.conf, now it is much clearer. I'll test the script tomorrow and let you know how it works for me. Thanks

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