More keyboard navigation

[Stian Håklev]

Hi all,

just beginning to set up my academic knowledge base on Tiddly, and excited to see the different approaches people have been taking!

One thing I'm wondering about is more keyboard support for navigation (not just editing). I tend to heavily prefer using the keyboard for navigation, and I could imagine a bunch of shortcuts for TW - like j/k for next/previous open tiddle, / to start a search in the search bar, etc. (With j/k, it would be nice if the currently active tiddle had a little outline, then clicking enter could open that tiddle for editing etc). While reading a tiddle, being able to quickly jump to links would also be awesome - but I guess this is more like Vimperator stuff... 

I wonder if anyone is working on these kinds of app/navigation keyboard shortcuts, and how hard it would be to add?

thanks!
Stian Håklev

[Jed Carty]

For the most part tiddlywiki doesn't know what tiddler you are looking at. That is the biggest problem for navigating the way you are talking about. Other people have talked about features like this and to my knowledge we don't currently have a way to make any of it work.

[PMario]

On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 3:04:25 PM UTC+1, Jed Carty wrote:

For the most part tiddlywiki doesn't know what tiddler you are looking at.

That's right. ... The main reason always was, that getting this info required to hook into the browser scroll event mechanism. ... Which was begging for trouble. ...

Now latest browsers implemented something called: Observers. ... There are several of them. IMO the one interesting for use is the "intersection observer". So everyone interested, could have a closer look and report back :)

have fun!

mario

 

[chaonuo]

the chrome extension vimium https://goo.gl/m4XUa might be a solution. 

this extension aims at replacing mouse with keyboards for most of the activities when using browser. so for instance the shortcut 'gi' will put cursor into a input box, the shortcut 'f' will offer you to choose (also with keyboard) which button or which link you want to go into. It can be used on almost any webpage, but TiddlyWiki is a particularly suitable use case.

[Ste Wilson]

Hi Stian

What branch of academic knowledge are you tiddlying out on?

Stephen