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Re: Google Experimental Search - Keyboard Shortcuts

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Post by Semiapies »

cyberian wrote: post #3
niekmaas wrote: post #2

Cool be pretty usefull. Is it just me or is the Key choice a bit weird? I find J for next and K for previous confusing. Would have expected it to be other way round.

They follow vim's keyboard conventions...

And have been used in other Google navigation, like Reader and Buzz.

Re: Google Experimental Search - Keyboard Shortcuts

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Post by nicpottier »

niekmaas wrote: post #2

Cool be pretty usefull. Is it just me or is the Key choice a bit weird? I find J for next and K for previous confusing. Would have expected it to be other way round.

Ya, those are vi standards. Wish they would at least support emacs p,n versions as well, as that's what I've remapped my gmail to. (and also what most unix's support by default in shells etc..)

Kind of weird that the vi standard is what has stuck with Google, anybody have an explanation apart from just the first peeps who did it being vi junkies?

Re: Google Experimental Search - Keyboard Shortcuts

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Post by ximeng »

nicpottier wrote: post #7
niekmaas wrote: post #2

Cool be pretty usefull. Is it just me or is the Key choice a bit weird? I find J for next and K for previous confusing. Would have expected it to be other way round.

Ya, those are vi standards. Wish they would at least support emacs p,n versions as well, as that's what I've remapped my gmail to. (and also what most unix's support by default in shells etc..) Kind of weird that the vi standard is what has stuck with Google, anybody have an explanation apart from just the first peeps who did it being vi junkies?

Bram Molenaar (author of Vim) works at Google, that might have something to do with it.

Also the "accessible view" seems to have n and p as well.

Re: Google Experimental Search - Keyboard Shortcuts

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Post by duck »

shrnky wrote: post #5

I still prefer vimperator http://vimperator.org/ in firefox and vimlike smoozie https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/donnjgnmaheadpip... in google chrome as I can navigate any page with just the keyboard.

I hadn't see either of those, but will be checking them out -thanks. Anything to avoid the mouse is good news.

Re: Google Experimental Search - Keyboard Shortcuts

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Post by meedimusic »

shrnky wrote: post #5

I still prefer vimperator http://vimperator.org/ in firefox and vimlike smoozie https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/donnjgnmaheadpip... in google chrome as I can navigate any page with just the keyboard.

You may also want to take a look at vimium for google chrome. I prefer it a little more than vimlike smoozie.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgn...

This made my switch to chrome from firefox much easier.

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