Comments on: A GMail Annoyance

By: Trever Fischer

Trever Fischer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:26:51 +0000

If you use google reader, the J/K keys move up and down just as in Vi. It only seems natural that they keep a consistent setup across all their applications.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:07:17 +0000

Mmmm, Siemens keyboard. I like. Got my fingers on one by accident and kept it.

By: Kapat

Kapat — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:48:17 +0000

I use GMail daily, but there is one fundamental thing that GMail is doing wrong and this is my “pet peeve”:

When replying using gmail, if you edit the subject, they (gmail’s MTA?) start a new conversation/thread and REMOVE the “In Reply To” reference from the header completely, which messes up the conversation even at the MUA end.

This to me is bothersome especially in mailing lists. I had ranted over this on the debian-user list a while back and even notified gmail’s support team. No response though, as expected.

By: Tony Whelan

Tony Whelan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:52:29 +0000

Wow you have way to much time on your hands seb, really…

By: Benjamin Reed

Benjamin Reed — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:20:11 +0000

Those bindings come from oldskool vi, where j was down and k was up. It feels fine to me, but then, I learned to use an editor before there were any other choices (and none of those fancy “vim” editors with support for arrow keys).

By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:09:50 +0000

Your entry doesn’t make it clear whether you already know this, but…

J and K are the keys that VI (and more importantly, VIM) uses for moving down and up, respectively. I believe that Google set up its keyboard shortcuts to be familiar to VIM users. I couldn’t guess why, but… Yeah.

Oh my. I almost posted this having got my directions wrong.