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Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#7867 new enhancement

h,l keyboard shortcuts

Reported by: techtonik <techtonik@…> Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: next-major-releases
Component: version control/browser Version: none
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Description

A request to add h and l to move up and down (or better say left and right) the directory tree structure expanding/collapsing leaves as needed.

There is also a bug in j,k shortcuts that they stop work after <Tab> is pressed.

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comment:1 by Christian Boos, 15 years ago

Interesting idea, but there are already two assigned keys that can be used to expand/collapse a directory ('o' and 'Enter'), so I'm not sure adding 'l' would be of great help. Also, in attachment:7074-directory-expand-and-nav.2.patch:ticket:7074 I use 'l' as a shortcut for getting to the 'l'og view.

comment:2 by techtonik <techtonik@…>, 15 years ago

I guess existing shortcuts were made after Google Experimental Search, but Google uses them to navigate plain top-down list and this is insufficient for convenient tree browsing.

Move up and down the tree actions are more sophisticated than simple expand/collapse. Move down the tree (l key or "right"):

  1. if folder is selected
    1.1 if folder is not expanded - expand it
    1.2 if the folder is expanded - move selection to the first child
  2. if there is file under cursor - do nothing

Move up the tree (h key - "left"):

  1. if expanded folder is selected - collapse the folder
  2. if file or collapsed folder is selected - move to parent node

As for existing 'l'og shortcut - it is convenient, but may be too easy to hit 'l' when navigating sources. Can it be replaced by other key, to say 'r' for revision log?

comment:3 by Christian Boos, 15 years ago

Milestone: 0.12

I'll have a second look on this after committing my pending changes to the keyboard navigation.

comment:4 by Remy Blank, 14 years ago

Milestone: 0.12next-minor-0.12.x

Should probably not block 0.12.

comment:5 by Christian Boos, 14 years ago

Milestone: next-minor-0.12.xnext-major-0.1X

I'll change the current 'l'og shortcut to 'L'og, so this leaves room for implementing this suggestion in a later version.

comment:6 by Christian Boos, 11 years ago

Milestone: next-major-releasesnext-dev-1.1.x
Owner: set to Christian Boos
Status: newassigned

Well, nobody else really felt the need for this.

Furthermore, it's really easy to navigate the whole tree using only j, k and o. Moving right is just o then j. Moving left, you'd have to go up to the parent, then o to toggle it closed, then j/k. Ok, maybe going left — h could be handy… but no need to bother people used to typing l for getting to the log view.

Last edited 11 years ago by Christian Boos (previous) (diff)

comment:7 by Ryan J Ollos, 9 years ago

Owner: Christian Boos removed
Status: assignednew

comment:8 by Ryan J Ollos, 9 years ago

Milestone: next-dev-1.1.xnext-major-releases

Retargetting tickets to narrow focus for milestone:1.2. Please move the ticket back to milestone:next-dev-1.1.x if you intend to resolve it by milestone:1.2.

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