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Introducing the Command Bar

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Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by tarr11 »

Playing with this for a few minutes:

* I wish it had vim keybindings (ie, hit esc, then use hjkl to navigate)

* It gives me the option to follow myself. (Bug?)

* I like how I can learn commands via the autocomplete bar (issue, branch, graph, etc)

* I like how the autocomplete bar refreshes after I have control-tabbed away and back. Too many autocompletes lose this behavior

* Searching in a repository username/repo doesn't work the way I expect. It just brings up the regular search

Overall, very useful though.

Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by mrgreenfur »

I like github for their sweet hosting and easy collaboration. I have no idea who would use this command bar. Do people really want to move the mouse to click on a cli and then guess/remember the syntax?

I don't really get why they built this... Anyone?

Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by burke »

tarr11 wrote: post #2

Playing with this for a few minutes: * I wish it had vim keybindings (ie, hit esc, then use hjkl to navigate) * It gives me the option to follow myself. (Bug?) * I like how I can learn commands via the autocomplete bar (issue, branch, graph, etc) * I like how the autocomplete bar refreshes after I have control-tabbed away and back. Too many autocompletes lose this behavior * Searching in a repository username/repo do…

I'd be pretty happy with Ctrl-(1-9) to action the nth item in the visible list.

Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by burke »

mrgreenfur wrote: post #3

I like github for their sweet hosting and easy collaboration. I have no idea who would use this command bar. Do people really want to move the mouse to click on a cli and then guess/remember the syntax? I don't really get why they built this... Anyone?

hitting 's' anywhere on the page activates the command bar. I will use this a lot.

Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by garand »

mrgreenfur wrote: post #3

I like github for their sweet hosting and easy collaboration. I have no idea who would use this command bar. Do people really want to move the mouse to click on a cli and then guess/remember the syntax? I don't really get why they built this... Anyone?

As someone who uses GitHub's web interface multiple times a day, the ability to dig down into specific actions and pages for a repo will save a lot of time clicking around. The big one for me, adding issues.

Re: Introducing the Command Bar

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Post by mrgreenfur »

burke wrote: post #5
mrgreenfur wrote: post #3

I like github for their sweet hosting and easy collaboration. I have no idea who would use this command bar. Do people really want to move the mouse to click on a cli and then guess/remember the syntax? I don't really get why they built this... Anyone?

hitting 's' anywhere on the page activates the command bar. I will use this a lot.

oh, that makes it much better. I only have a handful of repos and a few collaborators, so I don't really spend tons of time on GH. I imagine you spend more time than me to be excited by it -- what are you doing on there?
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