[Vimperator] Problem with vimperator ...

[Doug Kearns]

On 10/29/07, Andrzej Ostruszka <krasnal at 2-0.pl> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I've got a problem with vimperator.  First I have installed it and it
> worked like a charm (with only one drawback - I could not do map <C-W>
> <Nop>, and this <C-W> is a source of great troubles to me since it
> often happens that I'm closing the tab when I'm writing something in
> the text form - painful when you have written a lot and you close the
> tab by your vim habbits :P).

Note that <C-W> is different to <C-w> in Vimperator mappings.

> The problem is that now when I start firefox I get a window with menu
> bar (though I have not enabled it via guioptions) and so on and I'm
> not able to use vim keys.  ':' is not putting me to the command line,
> j/k/l/h/... are not working.  I see a vimperator status bar and this
> plugin is marked enabled in the addons dialog but somehow it stopped
> responding to the keys and is not acting to previous settings
> (guioptions had no menu).
>
> Have you encountered something like this?  How can I debug/trace
> problem?  I have already tried the obvious - uninstalled vimperator
> and installed it again and the same with firefox.

As a start you can have a look at the Error Console output for
messages prefixed with "vimperator:" and see how far it gets i.e. you
should see a number of messages starting with "vimperator:
Initializing vimperator..." and ending, prematurely, in an error.

Regards,
Doug