Mastodon: Keyboard mappings

[mjankowski]

It would be nice to map the esc key on keyboards to fire the "Back" navigation element in the right column in the UI.

When scrolling through a timeline view and viewing a status or a person, sometimes a quick glance is all that's needed, and going back with a quick keypress is better than seeking with mouse.

[tomfhowe]

Why not backspace/browser standard back key command?

[wxcafe]

It would also be nice to map the numbers to the respective columns (1 to home, 2 to notifications, 3 to the other one) like tweetdeck does (pressing the number gets you at the top of the column and selects it for future keyboard events)

[jerome-tgl]

Pressing ⇟ ⇞ ↑ ↓ don't scroll any column on Firefox 53 (MacOS 10.12). I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature.

Here are a few suggestions for more shortcuts (inspired from Tweetdeck and Gmail):

Actions:

• n: new toot
• r: reply to toot from a column
• b: boost a toot from a column
• f: favorite the toot
• d: direct message the toot author
• p: show user profile for toot author
• ?: show full keyboard shortcut list
• s or /: search
• #: delete toot
• z: cancel last action
• ⏎ or o: opens selected toot
• esc: cancel search / toot composition

Navigation:

• ↑ or k: move selection down
• ↓ or j: move selection down
• ⇞: move selection to the top
• ⇟: move selection to the bottom
• ←: move selection left
• →: move selection right
  
  
  
  • 1-9: navigate through columns 1 through 9
  
  
• ⌫: takes you back to the main column

Go to:

• g + u: go to user profile
• g + f: go to favorites
• g + l: go to local timeline
• g + t: go to federated timeline
• g + p: go to preferences
• g + m: go to muted users
• g + b: go to blocked users

[jbond23]

Would love to see some indication of which column has focus, and then J, K for next, previous toot scrolled to the top of the column.

[jbond23]

I'd prefer it if ↑ or k: move selection down & ↓ or j: move selection down, moved the highlighted toot to the top of the column.