[dev] gmail-style keyboard shortcuts in IMP?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>>
>>> With the new UI, has there been any discussion of gmail-style  
>>> keyboard shortcuts in IMP? I'm finding that I love the new UI, but  
>>> with the dynamic view I miss a bunch of keyboard shortcuts there  
>>> used to be. The gmail/vim/github style shortcuts seem pretty  
>>> widely adopted now.
>>
>> Which ones are you missing?  I don't believe we removed any  
>> shortcuts from IMP 5.
>
> Nothing that I'd expect works for new message (control-c,  
> control-n), reply (control-r), etc. New message is the one I miss  
> the most.

IIRC, we have never allowed CTRL-KEY (outside of CTRL-A) because they  
override built-in browser actions.  For example, CTRL-N opens a new  
browser window, a common action.  Or did you mean ALT-KEY actions?

>> Which Gmail shortcuts are you talking about?  All of these?
>>
>> http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594
>>
>> That seems to be a lot to implement & maintain for very little  
>> benefit.  Unless you are talking about some certain subset.
>
> I think a subset would be fine:
>
> c - compose
> j/k - prev/next (this is relatively standard on many sites now and  
> should imo be standard across horde)
> r - reply
> a - reply all
> f - forward

I don't object.  Although if someone implements this, I would rather  
have a way to make this portable and easily configurable across  
applications rather than hard-coding into application code.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]