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I love Vimium and finally started to look into more of its features, but I just wasn't able to find anything on how it can be useful at all. For example, Visual mode is nicely documented in the Wiki but all I could find about insert mode so far is how to enter and exit it. Tried random keys I know from using Vim but none seemed to have effect.

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The use case of insert mode (entered while pressing i) is documented in the README:

> i     enter insert mode -- all commands will be ignored until you hit Esc to exit

This may be useful to temporarily disable keybinds so it does not conflict with webpages implementing their owns.

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    So a better name is Bybass Mode or Disabled Mode ? – Miro Jul 27 '22 at 08:03
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    A good example would be [AsciiFlow](https://asciiflow.com/) where drawing ASCII boxes is fine, but as soon as one wants to enter text Vimium gets activated, but turning on insert mode solves this. – toraritte Aug 03 '22 at 11:53
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    @toraritte I think you hit the nail on the head. It's insert mode in the sense that it lets you type normally, as in vim's insert mode. – George Marian Jun 15 '23 at 01:08