Paul LütznerandClaude Opus 5.5 c6f0f42357 Add Gmail's keyboard shortcuts ...

j and k move a cursor through a list, o opens, u goes back, x
selects, e archives, # deletes, ! is spam, s stars, Shift+i and
Shift+u mark read and unread, l v b open label, move and snooze,
r a f reply, c composes, / searches, g then a letter goes to a list,
z presses Undo and ? lists all of it.

A key presses the control the page already has and does nothing else.
ui--shortcuts archives nothing itself: it finds the toolbar's Archive,
the row's star, the Reply link, and clicks it. The request, the Undo
toast and the refusal where an action is not offered are the
button's, so a shortcut cannot drift from the button it stands for.

What it acts on, first that exists: the selection through the list
toolbar, the open conversation through its own, the row under the
cursor through the row's buttons. Label, move and snooze have no
button on a row, so the row is ticked and the toolbar's menu opened.

The cursor is an attribute repainted from a remembered id, not focus:
rows are replaced by every refresh, and focus would be dropped to
body each time.

Keys are left alone while something is being typed into, while a
dialog or a menu is open, and with Ctrl, Alt or the Command key held.
A message body is a sandboxed frame with a document of its own, so
its script relays the facts of a keydown to the parent; otherwise the
shortcuts stopped the moment a mail was clicked on.

On for everybody, off per person under Settings, General. Off is the
controller not being mounted, so there is no flag for the script to
forget to read. Stored in the settings bag as a false only, so no
migration, and carried by config backups.

Closes #36

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-09 20:57:01 +02:00

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