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A proposal for keyboard shortcuts
(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
You are lucky! This has been completed. It's now in core, so no need for a user script anymore. There are also some a …
4y ago
Update: Now active by default (no user script needed). See this answer I have hacked together a userscript for …
4y ago
After using this for a while, I have a couple improvements / suggestions. g > c > enter should take you to the catego …
4y ago
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You are lucky!
This has been completed. It's now in core, so no need for a user script anymore. There are also some additions to the user script version, namely, that post, user and tag lists are now supported.
Update: Now active by default (no user script needed). See this answer
I have hacked together a userscript for this. If it works, we can also add it to the "original" Codidact software. If it doesn't, blame me programming something past midnight.
Tested only in Firefox with Greasemonkey, but I don't see why it shouldn't work with other platforms... :) Please report bugs/request features here in the comments or there on GitHub as issues.
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After using this for a while, I have a couple improvements / suggestions.
g > c > enter should take you to the categories page.
g > s should take you to search.
When opening a dialogue with multiple options, such as flags or closing, you should be able to select an option using the number keys. For instance, t > v > c > 1 to choose the first close option on a post.
esc should close an open dialogue.
When a post is focused (such as by j or k), ? should bring up available shortcuts.
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