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Ask PG: Vim shortcuts for navigating HN?

15 points by stanley 16y ago

Any chance we could get keyboard shortcuts integrated into HN? Nothing fancy, just something simple akin to: http://www.google.com/experimental/

joshfraser 16y ago
cool idea, but no reason to wait for PG to do it. it shouldn't be hard to hack up a greasemonkey script or a chrome plugin to add that functionality for yourself. then once you've proven its usefulness, i'm sure PG would be happy to consider adding the script to the site for everyone.
jpcx01 16y ago
i'm a vim lover, but this request is just plain nuts
- mullr 16y ago
  Why is it nuts? Gmail does this.
  - joshfraser 16y ago
    i love the j/k shortcuts in google reader. i'd use it on HN too if it was available.
  - mhansen 16y ago
    The jQuery API docs have something similar with the up/down arrows. http://api.jquery.com/ http://api.jquery.com/
jrockway 16y ago
Just install vimperator or conkeror. It's called a user agent because the user controls it. Don't rely on site authors to care about your special needs!
- tfh 16y ago
  Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.
  - bingaman 16y ago
    Same here...That said, Firefox is still a real dog in OS X compared with Chrome and Safari.
- javert 16y ago
  For anyone who doesn't know - vimperator is amazing and I couldn't imagine using the Web without it.
ostso 16y ago
See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099&#62 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099> -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.
gleb 16y ago
We use and maintain this: http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-shortcuts#greasemonkey http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short... It's modeled on Google Experimental, and other Google/vi-style shortcuts. Would love to see something like this implemented in HN codebase.
cschep 16y ago
Vimium for chrome gets you closer anyway.
surki 16y ago
If you are using Conkeror, you can use create a page mode, specific to a site - http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes Conkeror seems to have a reddit mode already in place, may be you can cook up a mode for HN - http://conkeror.org/PageModes http://conkeror.org/PageModes

15 points by stanley 16y ago

Any chance we could get keyboard shortcuts integrated into HN? Nothing fancy, just something simple akin to: http://www.google.com/experimental/

joshfraser 16y ago

cool idea, but no reason to wait for PG to do it. it shouldn't be hard to hack up a greasemonkey script or a chrome plugin to add that functionality for yourself. then once you've proven its usefulness, i'm sure PG would be happy to consider adding the script to the site for everyone.

jpcx01 16y ago

i'm a vim lover, but this request is just plain nuts

mullr 16y ago
Why is it nuts? Gmail does this.
- joshfraser 16y ago
  i love the j/k shortcuts in google reader. i'd use it on HN too if it was available.
- mhansen 16y ago
  The jQuery API docs have something similar with the up/down arrows. http://api.jquery.com/ http://api.jquery.com/

jrockway 16y ago

Just install vimperator or conkeror. It's called a user agent because the user controls it. Don't rely on site authors to care about your special needs!

tfh 16y ago
Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.
- bingaman 16y ago
  Same here...That said, Firefox is still a real dog in OS X compared with Chrome and Safari.
javert 16y ago
For anyone who doesn't know - vimperator is amazing and I couldn't imagine using the Web without it.

ostso 16y ago

See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099&#62 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099> -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.

gleb 16y ago

We use and maintain this: http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-shortcuts#greasemonkey http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short... It's modeled on Google Experimental, and other Google/vi-style shortcuts. Would love to see something like this implemented in HN codebase.

cschep 16y ago

Vimium for chrome gets you closer anyway.

surki 16y ago

If you are using Conkeror, you can use create a page mode, specific to a site - http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes Conkeror seems to have a reddit mode already in place, may be you can cook up a mode for HN - http://conkeror.org/PageModes http://conkeror.org/PageModes