Your mouse or trackpads are great ways to skim through your search results on MetaScroll! Anyhow, some folks prefer to not travel with their hands between keyboard and mouse/trackpad when searching. They’d ike to leave them on the keyboard.
For those keyboard afficiandos MetaScroll just got a lot better! You now aren’t dependend on your mouse anymore! Instead, you can move between search results using your cursor keys. To open a search result, just use “Enter” or the “Space”-bar.
Folling you’ll find a list of shortcuts:
With the searchbox unfocussed:
- Just start typing for a new search, the searchbox gets focussed automatically
- You can hit “Esc” to focus the searchbox, without overwriting the previous search term
With the searchbox focussed:
- “Enter” performs a search, selecting the first search result
- “Up”/”Down” switches to the next/previous search suggestion
- “Tab” unfocusses the searchbox and selects the first search result, without doing a search
Moving in search results:
- “Up” or “k” select the previous search result (YES! I like vi, too!)
- “Down” or “j” select the next one
- “Enter” or “Space” open the currently selected result
You may have to allow popups for the domain www.metascroll.com to be able to open a search result using the keyboard. These get opened in a new window or tab, depending on your browser setting.
I really hope you like these new features as much as we do! If you have any suggestions for other shortcuts, please, don’t hesitate to let me know!
