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I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understandi
by tbirrell 7y ago
I like it so far, but J to navigate down and K to navigate up is not intuitive at all. It should be flipped to match our Left-to-Right-Top-to-Bottom understanding of layouts
- mont 7y agoIt's probably set up like that to mirror vim bindings, after all, "J" does look __sort of__ like a down arrow.
- atoav 7y agoI always remember it as “jump” and “climb”. Climb doesn’t start with k, but fair enough.
- majewsky 7y agoWhen I learned HJKL, I used the following mnemonic: The J key (like the F key) has a little bump at the bottom to indicate the resting position for the index fingers in 10-finger writing. Since the bump is at the lower edge of the J key, that means that J goes down.
- plibither8 7y agoJ and K are vim's keybindings for up and down, which I figured would fit well with the community and users. What are possible alternative mappings to make it more intuitive to non-developers?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> What are possible alternative mappings to make it more intuitive to non-developers? Arrows. But for the other camp - the Emacs people - n and p would be best :).
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- dvtrn 7y agoWill fork for w,a,s,d support :P
- infokiller 7y agoMay I suggest adding an options page to configure the keybindings (and store them in browser.storage.sync)? Happy to send a PR.
- plibither8 7y agoSure, let's discuss this on a GitHub issue first :)
- mikewhy 7y agoj/k for down/up most likely comes from Vim.
- npongratz 7y agoJ and K are intuitive for anyone familiar with vim's keybindings for up and down.
- toothandtail 7y agoThis is also the same layout for Gmail (and many other apps I'm sure)