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172 points by vijaydev 14 years ago | 13 comments

AndyKelley 14 years ago |

I love this concept: "There's also a slew of other shortcut keys you can use, depending on the page- just hit ? to see them."

Please, let this become a standard for every website, that '?' brings up a list of shortcut keys.

Edit: It works in Gmail!

mileszs 14 years ago | |

I could be wrong, but I have been under the impression Google set that as a standard of sorts years ago, starting with GMail, and continuing with their other products. Pivotal Tracker has done it for a while, too. I think there are others, but I cannot recall what they are.

I press '?' on any site that I think might/should have keyboard shortcuts!

sbayless 14 years ago | |

And Google news, docs, calendar. Not the Google search pages though, since key presses are intercepted by the search bar.

edsrzf 14 years ago | | |

The new Google Groups also has it. The shortcuts are similar to Gmail's.

jordibunster 14 years ago | |

Works in Yammer too (I work there)

juandopazo 14 years ago | |

Twitter as well.

dbbo 14 years ago | |

Personally, I dislike websites that try to grab my keys. I use pentadactyl/vrome, so if the website just lists everything I need to do there as a normal hyperlink, I need only hit f+number and I'm good to go. That isn't to say that it isn't innovative or cool. It's just not up my alley. I like to let local applications manage the keyboard.

AndyKelley 14 years ago | | |

I agree that websites should not be able to override your keys. I'm often annoyed when I press '/' in firefox, expecting quicksearch to come up, and instead the website hijacks it for their own search.

However, I don't think that this should be solved at a website level. Websites shouldn't know or care what keys do in your browser; they should simply provide reasonable shortcut keys. Browsers should make it so that their shortcut keys cannot be overridden without your explicit permission.

127 14 years ago | | |

This is mostly the fault of insufficient Chrome addon API afaik. In Firefox/Pentadactyl the addon automatically hijacks all the keypresses and only by pressing CTRL-Z can you fall back into direct mode and feed keypress events to Javascript.

JGM564 14 years ago |

So glad to see ignoring whitespace supported, I found myself needing this a lot.

msmith 14 years ago | |

I learned recently that you can also do this on the command-line with "git diff -b"

parfe 14 years ago | | |

GNU diff supports -b (--ignore-space-change) and -B (--ignore-blank-lines) plus if you want to go all out -w (--ignore-all-space).

Git diff supports the same.

AdamGibbins 14 years ago | | |

On an related note - another nice diff flag I discovered recently is "git diff --word-diff" - which will as the name suggests, diff by word instead of line.