Pentadactyl

Notes on pentadactyl.

First, go here for help: dactyl://help

Most common shortcuts:

• open a new tab
• move cursor to address bar
• move cursor to search bar
• copy/paste text into address/search fields
• copy/paste text into text fields
• edit text in text fields
• switch between tabs
• open history
• open downloads

Here they are in Pentadactyl.

Tabs and Locations

Open in this tab

To open a location in the current tab:

o

which is short for

:o 

and start typing the URL.

Open in new tab

To open a location in a new tab:

t

which is short for

:tabopen

and will open a new tab with whatever location you feed it.

Open This Location In This Tab

If you want to populate the open dialog with your current location:

O 

which is short for:

:o [this url]

Open This Location In New Tab

To populate a tabnew command with the current URL, you can run

T

which is short for

:tabnew [this url]

Open Search Prompt in This Tab

To open a google search prompt in this tab, type lower case s:

s

which is short for

:open google [search term]

Open Search Prompt in New Tab

To open a google search prompt in a new tab, type capital S:

S

whcih is short for

:tabopen google [serach term]