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This isn't the best place to do feature requests and I also strongly believe the more features HN gets the worserer it will become. But. anyway, my current top fave is this:

implement some kind of keystroke scheme to to basic page steerage in emacs/vi mode respecting ways, and ? to show what the keystrokes are

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That may actually happen someday, because I wrote an HN client to help with moderation and it has all kinds of keyboard shortcuts for navigation. It's on my list to publish the navigation parts.

This would make me very happy.

You'd be welcome to bug us about it periodically at hn@ycombinator.com. The reason it's not done yet is that we have limited resources for working on software and there are always much higher-priority things to get done. But I really would like to get it out someday. Also, it's written in Arc using an Arc-to-JS implementation, which is fun.

I think I last bugged you about it, 2ish years ago. So, I'm happy you've got it on the backlog.

I think using front languages which "compile" to JS is a fine foonly thing to do. ghc-js and elm come to mind.

I really like cVim[0] for this. Think there's a couple of extensions for Firefox that accomplish the same thing.

[0] https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

Thank you. TIL. Given about 5-10 web pages I badly miss the google default steerage choices for gmail/photos &c, this may well fill a hole in my life.

So .. thank you kind HN reader.

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