Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web

Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by nixy on Thursday January 14, 2010 @12:21AM (#1051993)

I like it, but here's one big issue: Using ! as the command char is a pain. It's two combined keystrokes to produce that character. If you used a dot (.) or a space ( ) as the command char, you would reduce the overhead of entering a command by at least 100 %.

If you could allow the user to specify the command char, it would be awesome. Great work, though!

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Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by ankit_ on Thursday January 14, 2010 @12:38AM (#1052018)

Thanks! Makes sense to avoid multiple keystrokes wherever possible. Maybe in a future version we could do this.

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Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by hugothefrog on Thursday January 14, 2010 @02:59AM (#1052182)

You should definitely make this configurable. I used to use hit a hint (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1341), but found it would sometimes capture _all_ presses of the spacebar/ctrl key/whatever you configured. This made it practically impossible to enter text on some websites. It started happening more and more often, which meant I ended up turning HaH off.

GleeBox looks great. Echoing another posters comments, the mouse-centric navigation of the web really gets to me. Anything that lessons mouse usage gets my vote!

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Re:Show HN: gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web by sam33r on Thursday January 14, 2010 @03:00AM (#1052184)

Thanks for the feedback, will toy with the idea of custom modifiers. We experimented with a couple of other options before choosing !, it just felt right in combination with the other modifiers.

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