MetaTalk

A lot of websites and text editors use Ctrl/Command-K to insert a hyperlink around a highlighted selection of text. It'd be great to have a similar shortcut on Metafilter to speed up post creation!
posted by adrianhon on Mar 20, 2016 - 45 comments

I was wondering what the community and dev team thinks about adding a ctrl+enter shortcut to post comments. It's something that's fairly common elsewhere on the web, and in my opinion it would be nice to have it here as well. Going to the mouse to click on Post Comment is not exactly a big deal, but it would be cool if there were a keyboard shortcut for those of us who are slightly mouse-averse. [more inside]
posted by Scientist on Mar 8, 2014 - 40 comments

Ok, what Mefite owes you a keyboard or monitor because they wrote something that was so damn funny you lost bodily control for a moment? Extra credit for graphic descriptions of the mess :)
posted by pjern on Dec 8, 2013 - 81 comments

Pony request: Currently, j/k navigate from one post to the next. Could <enter> be bound to open the selected post? [more inside]
posted by dmd on Dec 7, 2013 - 14 comments

The Ctrl-U keyboard shortcut for making links doesn't work everywhere for me. I'd like it to. [more inside]
posted by benito.strauss on May 30, 2013 - 34 comments

My world would be complete if, after navigating up and down through posts using j and k, I could then navigate left and right through the links in the selected post using h and l.
posted by swift on Nov 13, 2012 - 22 comments

Can we get a keyboard shortcut for adding favorites? I use the j/k and m keyboard shortcuts all the time, but when I want to favorite a post or comment, I need to reach for the mouse. This will not do! [more inside]
posted by tonycpsu on Sep 6, 2012 - 26 comments

Low priority comment refresh Nigerian Dwarf Goat (a request even smaller than a tiny pony): keyboard shortcut to activate showing new comments. [more inside]
posted by kmz on Feb 24, 2011 - 58 comments

Quite by accident, I noticed today that it's possible to scroll through MetaFilter pages using the vi-style "j" and "k" keys (at least with Safari). Has this always been the case?
posted by sappidus on Jun 17, 2010 - 27 comments

So, the j and k keys can be used to jump between posts or comments, which is neat, except I already have those keys bound to scroll down and scroll up in my browser. Would it be possible to let users customize or disable nav keys, or do I just need to User JS it?
posted by The Pusher Robot on Mar 25, 2009 - 23 comments

HTML tag hotkeys? [more inside]
posted by koeselitz on Mar 10, 2009 - 17 comments

Random interface though: Make ctrl-enter preview or post messages. Outlook does it, IMs do it, and I keep trying to do it. Oh, and I'm lazy. And I'm aware of the alternative key combination, tab-enter, but it's uh, non-standard. Or some other good reason. :-)
posted by cCranium on Mar 11, 2001 - 3 comments