_{(This may not be the simplest feature request. It's also not extremely high priority. It's a nice-to-have, not imperative, and may not be possible at the moment - which is fine.)}

Everyone loves keyboard shortcuts. Programmers are known to love using their keyboards to whiz around without touching the mouse, and even other people often prefer the ease of using the keyboard and not having to change input methods all the time. It's also a type of accessibility feature (disclaimer: I wrote that).

In that vein, I'd love to see keyboard shortcuts arrive here on Codidact in some form. I've lined out a few commands that I'd think would be useful and are in line with my experience using keyboard shortcuts elsewhere on the 'net (Twitter, Stack, etc.).

?: brings up available shortcuts
n: new post (in that category)
s: search
g: go to...
  m: main page (of that site)
  u: users
  f: flags
  h: help
  p: your profile
  c: category...
    1: first category (generally Q&A)
    2: second category (Site Proposals, here); etc. for however many categories there are
j: moves selection down one item (such as posts on a category page or answers to a question)
k: moves selection up one item
t: use a tool... (on a post)
  f: flag
  e: edit
  c: comment
  l: get permalink
  h: view history
  m: migrate post
  d: delete
  v: vote...
    u: up
    d: down
    c: close

posted over 4 years ago

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4y ago by luap42‭

Mithical‭ staff

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