How can I show and hide the developer tools with vimperator in firefox?

Question

Well, I didn't find anything on this topic. Is there a way to interact with the developer tools in firefox via vimperator?

Answer 1

This depends on what you want to do.

• You can access the Web Developer menu using emenu.

  For instance, to bind gc to open the Browser Console, add this to your .vimperatorrc:

  nnoremap gc :emenu Tools.Web Developer.Browser Console<CR>
  

  or to define a command :bc to do so, use:

  command! bc -description "Open the browser console" :emenu Tools.Web Developer.Browser Console<CR>
  

• If there's already a hotkey for an action, you can define a command or another key binding to access it.

  For example, Ctrl+Shift+i toggles the developer tools. So I can define a command dev and a binding gd with the following:

  command! dev -description "Toggle developer tools" :normal <C-S-i>
  nnoremap gd <C-S-i>