Keyboard Shortcuts for Octopress Sites
Nerds love Octopress. Nerds love keyboard shortcuts. …need I say more?
@camdez What a delightful plugin, nice work!
— Brandon Mathis (@imathis) March 16, 2012
I added mutt / Gmail-style shortcuts to Octopress and I think it turned out pretty well. Go ahead and try out some of these shortcuts (but be aware that some of them only function within the context of a list of posts–like the homepage):
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| j | Next article |
| k | Previous article |
| j | Next article |
| k | Previous article |
| ^ | First article |
| $ | Last article |
| R | View full article |
| r | Comment on article (“reply”) |
| i | Go to the index |
| p | Previous page (older articles) |
| n | Next page (newer articles) |
| l | Scroll to selected article |
| / | Search |
| ? | Help |
I don’t know what the odds are of getting this merged into the Octopress trunk given that it introduces a dependency on jQuery, but it would be pretty damn cool to be able to navigate any Octopress site this way.
For the moment, if you’d like to get this running on your own site, you can grab the code from my Octopress fork on GitHub. It has a couple rough edges–particularly the styling on the Archive page and the crappy help alert (a lightbox-style page would be nice)–but I’d love to hear your thoughts on the rest.