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Try pressing 'm' on github

85 points by jenius 15y ago

frytaz 15y ago
pressing 's' focus on search form ;)
jnbiche 15y ago
Thank you for posting this; I can't tell you how many times I've had to google markdown cheat sheets while using github. This is a huge time saver.
vgnet 15y ago
Press "?" for a list of all keyboard shortcuts ("?" also works on some Google properties).
- sjs 15y ago
  Unless I've missed something "m" is missing from that help. Odd.
  - brokentone 15y ago
    Considering that "m" is half the known keyboard shortcuts (I'm ignoring ? as it represents a recursion I'm unwilling to face right now), that is odd indeed.
mtraven 15y ago
Not a very good UI if it requires a Hacker News story to let me know about it.
- ghshephard 15y ago
  Discoverability isn't the be-all/end-all in User Interfaces.
- tcard 15y ago
  It's just a shortcut, not essential. You have help links in each Markdown-capable textbox anyway.
- callum85 15y ago
  But you do now know about it. People telling each other about a hidden feature (via HN or whatever) is a common and valid way for non-essential features to be discovered. If you designed UIs assuming that that sort of user-to-user education doesn't exist, you'd be forced occasionally to reject a potentially handy power-user feature on the basis that there's no good place to promote it without cluttering the design. Which would be a shame.
mmahemoff 15y ago
I see. The lightbox content is actually in the page HTML if you view source.
j0k3r 15y ago
I see people tapping every keys on their keyboard :)
Fizzadar 15y ago
They'll soon need a list (displayed at all times) with all the different shortcuts around the site. Still, very nice idea :)
16s 15y ago
I thought it would let me make a comment like subversion and mercurial do.
- tutuca 15y ago
  On github not git... git commit -m works like in svn btw.
dfc 15y ago
This has been there since the announcement of GFM... http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ Markdown Cheat Sheet On Markdown-enabled portions of the site, press M on your keyboard to display a cheat sheet.
code_scrapping 15y ago
I love the idea of treating web-sites more like applications. From a programmer's point of view - yes, keyboard should be a more utilized way of interacting with a web-site, beyond arrow-navigation and filling text-boxes.
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85 points by jenius 15y ago

pressing 's' focus on search form ;)

Thank you for posting this; I can't tell you how many times I've had to google markdown cheat sheets while using github. This is a huge time saver.

vgnet 15y ago

Press "?" for a list of all keyboard shortcuts ("?" also works on some Google properties).

sjs 15y ago
Unless I've missed something "m" is missing from that help. Odd.
- brokentone 15y ago
  Considering that "m" is half the known keyboard shortcuts (I'm ignoring ? as it represents a recursion I'm unwilling to face right now), that is odd indeed.

mtraven 15y ago

Not a very good UI if it requires a Hacker News story to let me know about it.

ghshephard 15y ago
Discoverability isn't the be-all/end-all in User Interfaces.
tcard 15y ago
It's just a shortcut, not essential. You have help links in each Markdown-capable textbox anyway.
callum85 15y ago
But you do now know about it. People telling each other about a hidden feature (via HN or whatever) is a common and valid way for non-essential features to be discovered. If you designed UIs assuming that that sort of user-to-user education doesn't exist, you'd be forced occasionally to reject a potentially handy power-user feature on the basis that there's no good place to promote it without cluttering the design. Which would be a shame.

mmahemoff 15y ago

I see. The lightbox content is actually in the page HTML if you view source.

j0k3r 15y ago

I see people tapping every keys on their keyboard :)

Fizzadar 15y ago

They'll soon need a list (displayed at all times) with all the different shortcuts around the site. Still, very nice idea :)

16s 15y ago

I thought it would let me make a comment like subversion and mercurial do.

tutuca 15y ago
On github not git... git commit -m works like in svn btw.

dfc 15y ago

This has been there since the announcement of GFM... http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ Markdown Cheat Sheet On Markdown-enabled portions of the site, press M on your keyboard to display a cheat sheet.

code_scrapping 15y ago

I love the idea of treating web-sites more like applications. From a programmer's point of view - yes, keyboard should be a more utilized way of interacting with a web-site, beyond arrow-navigation and filling text-boxes.

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