Firemacs v3.4

Kazu Yamamoto

An extension to add Emacs's editing features to Firefox
You can also enjoy "less"-like motions in non-input elements
Official download

Key Bindings

You can browse the available commands in the configuration window.
'M-' means 'ESC' 'C-['. The Alt key can also be used on Windows/UNIX.
To disable a command, remove its key characters

Tips

Letting arrow keys handle region introduced a side effect. You cannot move the auto-completion menu of forms with the arrow keys. If you don't like this, remove "up" and "down" from the configuration window.
Problems specific to Windows
To use the Alt key as Meta, set ui.key.menuAccessKey to 0
Problems specific to Mac
- Typing C-a when Find Diag is displayed, all matched keys are highlighted after the cursor moves to the beginning of the line
  - Set ui.key.generalAccessKey to 0 to disable this kind of accesskey (default -1)
- On Firefox 2, typing 'C-SPC' gets a menu appeared. Use 'C-i' instead
  - This was fixed on Firefox 3 but came back on b5, sigh

Anonymous CVS

To set up password, type:

% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.mew.org:/cvsfiremacs login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.mew.org)
CVS password:

For password, just type RET.

To checkout the source files, type:

% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.mew.org:/cvsfiremacs co firemacs

Copyright

Firemacs is a wineware. You may use and modify firemacs. But if you want to request a new feature, you should give the author a bottle of good wine. :-)

The early versions of Firemacs was implemented based on mozless. I would thank the author of mozless.

The icon was drawn by Mr. Ohkouchi. Thanks!

History

3.4 (23 July 2008 submitted; 23 July 2008 approved)
- Right click on the status icon displays a menu
- Firemacs can work on any dialog windows (thanks to Hirano-san)
- Supporting BonEcho and Minefield
3.3 (20 June 2008 submitted; 28 June 2008 approved)
- Configuration window is now tab based (thanks to Hirano-san)
- C-m generates the Return key code (thanks to Hirano-san)
- Adding tooltip to status bar icon
- Supporting Iceweasel
- Regular expression to turn off
- Using Alt/Meta as M-
3.2 (17 May 2008 submitted; 17 June 2008 approved)
- A bug fix for canceling access key on Firefox 3
- New icon
- Status bar icon to enable/disable Firemacs
3.1 (14 Mar 2008 submitted; 20 Mar 2008 approved)
- Down-sizing the icon to 32x32 due to Firefox 3 beta 4
- Detecting whether or not menu is displayed
3.0 (4 Mar 2008 beta release)
- You can disable ESC
- You can walk any kinds of menu on Firefox 3
Search is now available on Firefox 3
2.4 (13 Nov 2007 submitted; 28 Nov 2007 approved
- You can choose whether or not C-n/C-p walk through forms. Remove the check from "walk form" if you prefer not to walk through
- The code has been re-written with design patterns
2.3 (20 Sep 2007 submitted; 23 Sep 2007 approved
- The arrow keys (up, donw, right, left) can handle region
- A command prefix is shown in the status bar
- The algorithm to find forms has been sophisticated
- You can specify a regular expression to be matched URL (the default value is "wiki"). Accesskeys in the page matched to the regular expression are automatically removed
- XPath is used to remove accesskeys
- Preference Observer is used
- Naming convention of variables and functions is changed
2.2 (20 Aug 2007 submitted; 29 Aug 2007 approved
- The alt key is available on Windows/Mac
- The command prefix (C-x) can be configurable
- A bug fix for the mark
2.1 (1 May 2007 submitted; 30 June 2007 released)
- 'C-d' deletes the current character
- 'C-g' hides the Search bar
- Completely re-written with the Object Oriented style
2.0 (5 April 2007 not submitted)
- Overriding event listeners of, for example, vox or gmail
- 'M-k' removes accesskeys of, for example, wiki or wikipedia
- 'C-.' selects the body. This is convenient if the caret is in an input
- Key binding is now possible
- Bug fixes of zero position mark
1.1 (1 March 2007 unofficial release)
- Change C-u to M-v
- 'C-xs' selects the first submit button. M-n/M-p can walk around submit buttons
- 'C-xt' selects the first input/textarea. C-n/C-p can walk around input/textareas. 'C-xt' in an input/textarea selects the content body
- C-f/C-b in readable area selected the next/prev tab but not its content body. Now they select the body of the next/prev tab
- Fixing the side-effect of C-g
1.0 (16 Feb 2007 submitted, 1 March 2007 approved)
- An XML table for key-binding was introduced to simplify the code
- C-k now can delete an empty line also
- Configuration for enabling/disabling keybidings (by shirou)
- 'C-x k' closes the current tab
- M-delete deletes a word backward
- M-d deletes a word forward
0.10 (29 Jan 2007 submitted, not approved)
- C-n and C-p can walk around the completion menus of the URL/Search bar
- 'C-xC-f' opens a file
- 'C-x l' jumps to the URL bar
- 'C-x g' jumps to the Search bar
- 'C-x u' executes undo
- 'M-<' and 'M->' selects the region if the mark exits
0.9 (26 Jan 2007 approved)
- Removed the global variables
- Removed unnecessary files from the contents of the archive
0.8 (Not released)
- Implemented 'F' and 'R'
- C-g and M-w now remove highlight
- Both C-s and C-r emulates Emacs with very good manner
- The firebug icon can be dispaled in the status bar
- Implemented a generic algorithm to see whether or not the current element is writable. Firemacs can co-exist with i-revo but the Firemacs features cannot be used
0.7 (The first release to the public)
- C-m now inserts a new line
- C-SPC displays 'Mark set' in the status bar
- Obsoleted Alt completed
- Implemented M-< and M->
- Firemacs now co-exists the HTML editor of vox.com. Since accesskey of vox.com wins, commands of firemacs cannot be used.
0.6
- Fixed a bug of C-[
0.5
- ESC now works as Meta
- C-[ now also works as Meta
- Obsoleted A-w. Use 'C-[ w' instead
0.4
- Search with 'C-s'
0.3
- Removing unnecessary code
- Implemented 'A-w'
- A new icon by Mr. Ohkouchi