vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

[stuntpilot99]

Title:
vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

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Summary:
j and k for forward and back one post. Could perhaps go one further and add h for parent, and l for child.

Description:
Use j and k for forward and back one post. Could perhaps go one further and add h for parent, and l for child in thread.

Ok, clearly I'm a vim user, but regardless of that, these keys are used pretty much nowhere as shortcuts. FF already nicely implements / for search.

The single most brilliant idea of G+ is I can <i>cleanly</i> skip or backup a post with one keypress. (It would appear I'm easily pleased) Spacebar doesn't do it - especially here where a post could be 5 lines or 500 lines with embedded pictures. Also sometimes it's nice to cleanly go back to start of a post to check/re-read. No other site, to my knowledge does similar, but I now press these damn keys on LJ and FB all the time - and still it never works no matter how many times I try! :D

Any other website that offers a shortcut or two tends to be using meta key combinations like CTRL / ALT. This of course means there's a big chance of getting in the way of local applications which have mapped the same combination. Skip post then becomes skip track in winamp or volume and you're irritated (or deafened) :)

DW has lengthy posts regularly - some of them I'm simply not going to be interested in - be that another 206 pictures of someone's redecorating, pet cat, paper clip collection, or simply a huge post on something you've no interest in.

Set an anchor on each entry, and let me skip in one smooth action. It's a simple fix for much added slickness.

Poll #8897 vi keyboard shortcuts blatantly stolen from G+ please

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (15.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (12.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (21.5%)

(I have no opinion)
32 (49.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.5%)