What’s this?
It’s a new UserScript (typically installed with browser extensions such as Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey/Greasomonkey) which enables keyboard arrow navigation, meaning you will no longer have to use your mouse to navigate Lemmy if you’re lazy like myself 😌
Why YSK:
For some people like me, this could be the turning point to actually start using Lemmy (few but still!). I loved Lemmy and the only thing I disliked was being unable to navigate it with a keyboard like I used to do with Reddit/RES so I created one :)
Hope this is helpful and enjoy! 🚀
Sharing the hotkeys below, you may also find everything on the github page:
Down = Next post / comment
Up = Previous post / comment
Right = Next page / parent comment
Left = Previous page / parent comment
A = Upvote
Z = Downvote
X = Expand
C = View Comments
R = Reply
Enter = View Link
Version 1.7 just released!
- New app icon ⌨️
- Added R key to reply to a comment 💬
- Fixed meta headers ✍️
- Fixed all lint errors 🐛
- Now script works automatically on all Lemmy sites, thanks to @[email protected] ⚡
This is great, I used navigate reddit using RES frequently, although I like the vim navigation style (hjkl). Would we be able to change the key shortcuts?
Hey sure! You could either use boobslider’s original script (from which I based mine) or just use my script and replace ArrowDown/ArrowUp with KeyJ/KeyK!
any chance its possible to commit these shortcuts to the actual lemmy-ui so its natively supported?
I can try but no promises
Edit: Someone got to it first! https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1892 However I personally dislike the key selection :/ J,K is neither comfortable, nor intuitive. Hopefully they will make it configurable.
j/k is what I’m used to from vim, RES, etc
Hey that’s solvable! You could either use boobslider’s original script (from which I based mine) or just use my script and replace ArrowDown/ArrowUp with KeyJ/KeyK!
Oh yeah, I’m just saying that j/k is pretty widely used.
Also, I think it’s more comfortable because they’re on the home row whereas the cursor keys aren’t. Configurability is always good though.
I’d create a GitHub issue and discuss it with the developers first. As long as users can opt out it might be reasonable.
But having a lot of people use the extension in the meantime would prove the demand.
There is an issue on lemmy-ui tracker https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/984 apparently there is now also a WIP PR for it, yay :) However it seems to be with j,k keys, something which doesn’t suit me, I prefer arrows.
YSK: You can now navigate Lemmy with keyboard arrows
YSK: You can use a web-browser script to navigate Lemmy with keyboard arrowsWhy should I know about it? (rule 2)
Fixed! Thank you for the reminder, I just wrote it hastily
In your post’s text body, you must include the reason “Why YSK:”
You haven’t fixed it, btw
Sorry I’m just getting to know this place, I just tried now, will that work?
Looks good 👍 (Let’s ignore rule 4 😉)
Too many rules 😅 But hey it’s open source so I won’t be drowning in money from this lol
