KGS Hotkeys Wishlist
MK These changes would have made my life a lot easier during the go congress. I was using cgoban extensively on my laptop, but i had no mouse, just the touchpad, which was bringing me to tears sometimes.
When CGoban works as sgf editor:
- ctrl-x
- cut
- ctrl-v
- paste
- shift-ctrl-arrow-up
- move a branch up (works like shift-up from the drop-down menu)
- shift-ctrl-arrow-down
- move a branch down
- ctrl-s
- save game
When CGoban works as client
- ctrl-n
- open a new game; in this window:
- space
- many dialogs do not appear with a default action, for example, the "close" button in the "fan list" dialog is not automatically selected
Keys needed to change tabs in main (room) window and in simul window.
In cloned games
- ctrl-r
- re-synch the clone, i. e. jump to the node the original game currently is at, to move along with the original moves again
- Hyperlinks
- Often during discussion while watching a game in progress, beginners become confused by the wealth of Go terminology that become second nature as players gain experience. I suggest a hot-click feature, where you highlight a term or terms in the text of chat, click on it, and your browser (or a pop-up browser window of the client) opens to that term if it's found in any of several on-line Go sources (Client Options menu, choose your favorite) such as SL, or any other that people suggest. Multiple words can be concatenated together, with punctuation dropped, etc - that's simple. If the term isn't found, allow the destination to handle it - SL's "Do you want to create it?" page, or perhaps at another site, whatever their 404 page is. --Oryx
I think there should be shortcuts for opening your buddy list, viewing your list of games, closing the chat section when watching a game, etc. lots of shortcuts.