Vimium: disable vimium temporarily

[cptMikky]

Hi, I miss a feature to completely disable vimium temporarily.

My specific use case is when I open a remote management console for a server in Chromium and have to edit a file using vim, I'm unable to control it as even if I put vimium to insert mode, the esc key is always caught by vimium before it's propagated to the console in the website, which makes using vim inside a website impossible.

I'd like to have either a clickable feature to disable vimium via the bar icon or having a special (configurable) non-vim key binding to disable and re-enable vimium.

[smblott-github]

Vimium can be disabled temporarily on a site very quickly:

• Go to chrome://extensions/
• at the bottom click "Keyboard shortcuts"
• and set a shortcut for Vimium (I use Ctrl-Shift-V).

Now, to disable Vimium: Ctrl-Shift-V, Ctrl-Enter.

And to re-enable Vimium: Ctrl-Shift-V, Tab, Enter, Ctrl-Enter.

It looks complicated written out like that, but it's actually quite natural.

[frizop]

I don't seem to be getting any visual feedback while trying this on a mac. Curious if it can work at all?

[innaterebel]

The "go to chrome://extensions/ and set a shortcut as you like" part is Chrome's native mechanism to call up an given extension's toolbar popup. By default the shortcut is not set.
It should work as long as you have set an applicable shortcut and have not set the icon of the extension hidden. If it really doesn't work it most likely a Chromium bug.

The rest part of Ctrl-Enter and Tab, Enter, Ctrl-Enter are in fact the actual steps to disable a site in Vimium's toolbar popup.
So yes, the whole process is visually visible, you just have to set the browser shortcut right first.

[eromoe]

Shortcut no longer work because there is only one option "activate" :

this actions same as click the vimium icon .

I am usually working on jupyter notebook which has its own shortcut conflicted with vimium. In this case vimium would take the chair . However I don't tend to exclude jupyter host , because I like to use vimium for navigation .
So is there any way can disable vimium temporarily ？

[eromoe]

Oh, I understood what smblott-github said ...
Ctrl-Shift-V used to click the icon, then use other keys to exculde and remove exclude .
That's not so straight forward . One shortcut Ctrl-Shift-V would be nice .

[yingshaoxo]

Hey, guys.

Just look this: https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Disabling-Vimium#wholly-disable-vimium-on-a-site

It shows you how to temporary disable vimium.

[fazlizekiqi]

The tool is really good but sometimes i would really appreciate if there was a key for disabling that.

[gdh1995]

@fazlizekiqi Have you tried the enterInsertMode command?