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Interesting. How can you manage browsing without a mouse. Looks like quite a hassle.

robalni 4y ago
Tab and enter to click links. When there are too many links in the way I sometimes use j and k to go down or up lines to skip them or '/' to search for the text of the link. It's also possible to use numbers before j and k (or any other commands) to go down or up multiple lines. So if I see that a link is 1 decimeter below the cursor, I press "21j" to go down 21 lines which puts me close to the link and then I can usually just press tab once or twice and enter. The reason for 21 (or 12 or 31 and so on) instead of 20 is that 2 and 1 are close to each other on the keyboard so I can easily hit them with my left hand while putting my right index finger on the j key. Reading text is easy, just page down/up which can be combined with arrow keys to go down/up half a page. Example: page down + arrow up goes down a page and then up half a page because it puts the cursor at the top of the page when I hit page down. It's also possible to scroll down one line with J and up one line with K. Managing multiple pages is easy too. I can open a tab with T or a link in a new tab with ctrl+t and close the tab with ctrl+q and switch tab with { and }. I can go backward and forward in history by pressing s and selecting a page or just back once with B. There are just a few things that are a bit annoying. When you open a link in a new tab, the browser is not responsive until the page has loaded or you abort it with ctrl+c. And some pages are just really bad and hard to read or navigate with a browser like this because they rely too much on javascript or css.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  Just reading your comment exhausted me, this feels like such a waste of time and a massive inconvenience. Any time you save by loading pages faster is lost a hundred folds by the inefficiency of the whole process. All that comes to my mind is the "This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years" meme.

Tab and enter to click links. When there are too many links in the way I sometimes use j and k to go down or up lines to skip them or '/' to search for the text of the link. It's also possible to use numbers before j and k (or any other commands) to go down or up multiple lines. So if I see that a link is 1 decimeter below the cursor, I press "21j" to go down 21 lines which puts me close to the link and then I can usually just press tab once or twice and enter. The reason for 21 (or 12 or 31 and so on) instead of 20 is that 2 and 1 are close to each other on the keyboard so I can easily hit them with my left hand while putting my right index finger on the j key. Reading text is easy, just page down/up which can be combined with arrow keys to go down/up half a page. Example: page down + arrow up goes down a page and then up half a page because it puts the cursor at the top of the page when I hit page down. It's also possible to scroll down one line with J and up one line with K. Managing multiple pages is easy too. I can open a tab with T or a link in a new tab with ctrl+t and close the tab with ctrl+q and switch tab with { and }. I can go backward and forward in history by pressing s and selecting a page or just back once with B. There are just a few things that are a bit annoying. When you open a link in a new tab, the browser is not responsive until the page has loaded or you abort it with ctrl+c. And some pages are just really bad and hard to read or navigate with a browser like this because they rely too much on javascript or css.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
Just reading your comment exhausted me, this feels like such a waste of time and a massive inconvenience. Any time you save by loading pages faster is lost a hundred folds by the inefficiency of the whole process. All that comes to my mind is the "This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years" meme.