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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?

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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.

Ah, this makes a lot more sense to me now. Pretty cool!

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?

Well, I can't speak for burke, but I use GitHub Enterprise at work. Once this trickles down to GH:E, I'll probably use it very regularly.

I'm a developer at Shopify, and all of our development happens on Github. I also spend a fair bit of time working with issues on open source projects.

This is the killer feature of this, I am programmed for keyboard shortcuts, its why I'm productive in Vim, its why I use Gnome-do for launching, and its why I feel the web browser is my only real need for a mouse (Vimperator and the like don't seem to do it for me)

Once I hardwire a combination into my head, anything else feels slow and laboured to the point that I hate using it, and often I am found trying to use shortcut keys when a simple mouse touch would work better.

Some people are predominantly mouse people, and if they are productive doing this, this is of course ok, but a feature like this would be an added boon in my opinion for any website.

Thanks for the 's' tip.

Too bad they didn't also use '/', like gmail and atlassian products.

A downside of using '/' is that it is already used in Firefox to mean search-in-page.

Not leaving the keyboard is one big thing. I ditched webkit for Firefox in order to be able to use Pentadactyl, but it's worth it to not have to leave the home row.

Learning a few commands is not hard, and there is always the ol' mouse to fall back upon if you don't want to remember all those commands.

With vimium[1] you get most of the keyboard-functionality in Chrome that Pentadactyl offers for Firefox.

[1]: http://vimium.github.com/

Or use vrome[1]. [1]:https://github.com/jinzhu/vrome

Vimium is awful compared to pentadactyl.

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