Mastodon: shortcuts: namely, N to start a new post

[hoodieak]

it's in the title

[marrus-sh]

adding on to this would be keyboard navigation/selection of toots; ie using the arrow keys (and then potentially shortcuts for fav/reply/expand from there). this is a much less trivial feature to add though

[Gargron]

With the compose form being always open, why do you need a shortcut? What would it do, exactly? Also, just "n" is a useful letter to be used in text input, and ctrl+n opens a new window in the browser. I don't really understand this feature request. I do understand wanting to navigate toots with the keyboard and having shortcuts to reply, boost or favourite, though.

[outofrange]

I miss good old 'n' too - the compose form may always be open, but it's often not focused, which I equally often only realise after putting both my hands on the keyboard.

[lutoma]

Another addition to @marrus-sh's request: I'd love to be able to select columns by pressing 1, 2, and so on, like in TweetDeck (in combination with the arrow keys to select individual toots).

[James-Firth]

@Gargron Likely for people who are on a desktop/laptop and don't want to move their hands away from the keyboard.

@outofrange makes a good point.

[nclm]

Keyboard shortcuts are indeed one of the main missing thing from Twitter. Also: gf to go to favourites, gp to your profile, etc.

[jerome-tgl]

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2102 seems broader.

I commented there before noticing this issue (incl. recommendation to use numbers to navigate to columns).

[jerome-tgl]

why do you need a shortcut?

@Gargron if more keyboard shortcuts are implemented (like ? to display their list, b to boost a selected toot), it might best not to auto-focus on the compose field by default.

[puphime]

@Gargron because if your hands are on the keyboard you dont wanna have to use your mouse to click the text box

[wxcafe]

👍

[Palingenae]

This, is about UX, not only UI.

There are certainly people mainly using the keyboard to navigate. This would help a lot.