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Ask PG: Vim shortcuts for navigating HN?

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Any chance we could get keyboard shortcuts integrated into HN?

Nothing fancy, just something simple akin to: http://www.google.com/experimental/

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Just install vimperator or conkeror.

It's called a user agent because the user controls it. Don't rely on site authors to care about your special needs!

Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.

Same here...That said, Firefox is still a real dog in OS X compared with Chrome and Safari.

For anyone who doesn't know - vimperator is amazing and I couldn't imagine using the Web without it.

cool idea, but no reason to wait for PG to do it. it shouldn't be hard to hack up a greasemonkey script or a chrome plugin to add that functionality for yourself. then once you've proven its usefulness, i'm sure PG would be happy to consider adding the script to the site for everyone.

If you are using Conkeror, you can use create a page mode, specific to a site - http://conkeror.org/WritingPageModes

Conkeror seems to have a reddit mode already in place, may be you can cook up a mode for HN - http://conkeror.org/PageModes

See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099>; -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.

We use and maintain this: http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short...

It's modeled on Google Experimental, and other Google/vi-style shortcuts. Would love to see something like this implemented in HN codebase.

Vimium for chrome gets you closer anyway.

i'm a vim lover, but this request is just plain nuts

Why is it nuts? Gmail does this.

The jQuery API docs have something similar with the up/down arrows. http://api.jquery.com/

i love the j/k shortcuts in google reader. i'd use it on HN too if it was available.

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