Ho ho ho.

December 25, 2010 10:27 AM

Christmas Pony Request: Can we have j/k navigation on tags/search results?

We have this on posts on the front pages and comments, but I'd like to be able to j/k navigate on tag results pages, too. Looks simple enough.

By the way, this might be a feature already, so I'm using Chrome and this doesn't work on both Ubuntu, ChromeOS and Windows 7.

posted by azarbayejani to Feature Requests at 10:27 AM (14 comments total)

Good Heavens! Vi, is that you after all these years?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:58 AM on December 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

When I see 'j/k,' I flash back to my junior-high yearbooks, and figure that somebody is just kidding.
posted by box at 12:00 PM on December 25, 2010 [4 favorites]

Yeah it'll take some Javasciptery to add that. So yes, but not today. Probably next week sometime.
posted by pb (staff) at 12:08 PM on December 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

Just Kidding!
posted by dirtdirt at 12:57 PM on December 25, 2010

I want to be able to navigate to the closest joke, just to clarify.
posted by azarbayejani at 1:09 PM on December 25, 2010

Just a quick request for psych! navigation.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:51 PM on December 25, 2010

pb: "Yeah it'll take some Javasciptery to add that. So yes, but not today. Probably next week sometime"

Why pb? What do you have on today that's so god damned important that you can't implement someone's pony request immediately?

j/k
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:46 AM on December 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

Blazecock, the kids these days spell it SIKE! Ugh.

Also, go team vi!
posted by ellenaim at 10:40 AM on December 26, 2010

If you were a real vi nutjob you'd already have a browser extention remapping j/k to scroll-up/down.

Go team vi nutjobs!
posted by nebulawindphone at 11:40 AM on December 26, 2010

Can we get a shortcut to favorite the comment currently selected with j/k?
posted by grouse at 12:34 PM on December 26, 2010

Nothing is "selected" with j/k, and there's no visual indication that anything is selected. Behind the scenes we simply move the scrollbar for you. So it would require quite a rewrite to have any action items associated with whatever is currently at the top of the browser. And without the visual indicator that something is selected, I think we'd got a ton of mistaken favorites.

Not to mention, any changes related to favorites requires a supermajority approval in MetaTalk. Signed in triplicate.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:55 PM on December 26, 2010

ok, j/k should be set on tag pages.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:04 AM on December 27, 2010

srsly what is that.
posted by sweetkid at 7:51 PM on December 27, 2010

YAY it's done. Thanks pb
posted by azarbayejani at 3:50 PM on December 30, 2010