Does anyone use the "g" + letter combination keyboard shortcuts? I'm wondering where its origin are from. Also made a quick comparison table of them for Pinafore, Mastodon, X and Elk (Phanpy doesn't support them).
I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean like "^g + ...", or "Alt-g + ...)"?.
Or just the letter "g" itself is a hotkey in one of those web clients?
Elpher (a Gopher/Gemini client in Emacs) uses #hotkeys in this manner, as do some other cli clients (vi/Vim), etc., but in a GUI I'm mostly used to seeing either the Ctrl (^), or Alt keys used, even in most terminals, i.e., "Alt + Shift +v" to paste in most Linux/BSD terminal clients, analagous to Windows' "^v", While Tmux is "^b + ..."
Not sure how popular it is but I got familiar with these patterns by Gmail for this combination and sometimes use the ones in GitHub too. I guess some Googler has been inspired by vi.
@shuuji3 oh nice! I'm kinda curious if there's some sort of "standard". If all apps have different set of shortcuts, users have to memorize them per-app? Some are a bit easier to memorize and make sense for English (h = Home), though won't be the same for other languages 🫣
@cheeaun I guess each application chooses its own keys and users need to practice to be accustomed. Sometimes similar functionality shares the same keys but not necessarily the same. I think this is similar to the common "Search" shortcut (some apps uses / but others Ctrl+K) 😅
@cheeaun I almost never use these kinds of keyboard shortcuts because I don't have the patience to memorise them. I also don't really like them that much, because they tend to lead to accidental actions as I start writing without realising that another window had focus or one of my cats sits on the keyboard.
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