Hotkeys that you know and love?

Operations:
CTRL and A - Select all
CTRL and C - Copy selected
CTRL and F - Find files [also Windows+F], [sometimes F3].
CTRL and N - New file/window
CTRL and O - Open
CTRL and P - Print
CTRL and S - Save
CTRL and V - Paste copied
CTRL and X - Cut selected
CTRL and Z - Undo
CTRL and F4 - Close
CTRL+SHIFT+Arrow - select word blocks, replace arrow with pageup/down for larger sections.
ALT+F4 Close the active item, or quit the active program
F2 - Rename selected item
F5 - Update/Refresh
F11 - enlarge browser window [IE only?]
Windows Logo+M - Minimize all windows
Windows Logo+SHIFT+M Restore the minimized windows
Windows Logo+ L - Lock the keyboard
Windows Logo+R - Run dialogue box

Navigate:
F6 - Cycle boxes [good if you want to get to the address bar, also try Alt+D]
ALT+TAB - Cycle forward open items
ALT+SHIFT+TAB - Cycle reverse open items
ALT+ESC - Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened
TAB - Cycle fields
CTRL+TAB - Cycle forward through tabs
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB - Cycle reverse through tabs
SPACEBAR - [de]Select check box, also used as pagedown

Useless keys never to use:

F1 - the most useless key ever.
Windows Logo+F1 - These two keys together are the worst pair of keys ever.


For browsing I usually like avoiding much of the mouse, except the mousewheely. I find myself also clicking and dragging on empty parts of websites to scroll sometimes, or click on an empty spot and hit backspace.

If I'm on firefox at home I'll be hitting ctrl+t a lot to open tabs, at work ctrl+n because they have IE.

commonly it will go a little like this: ctrl+t, alt+d, www.techwarelabs.com/community, ctrl+t alt+d, google.com/ig, tab tab login, ctrl+shift+tab, tab tabtabtab, login, spacebar, ctrl+tab spacebar

Kinda wild but I sorta do it secondnaturedly.

any speed tips from you browsing gurus?

I like using the most universal shortcuts I can find because I never know what computer i'll be on, but usually i'm on public computers and they run windowz.

I'm slower with a mac, until I open the CLI, but as far as navigating OS X, it's not too quick for me.

share!

k - up
j - down
h - left
l - right
G - bottom
gg - top
dw - delete word
dl - delete letter
dd -delete line
s/.*regex/replace/
Shift-V - select
.......
<3 gvim

plus most of what you have there, but none of the windows key combos, as a) i don't use windows and b) my laptop doesn't have windows keys

ctrl-alt-(shift) - arrow keys - move through workspaces (with selected window)

ctrl-L location bar in most programs
ctrl-K search bar in firefox

i'm sure there are more. i rarely touch a mouse, but i really don't know what i'm doing with my hands. I think "action" my hands take care of the rest

what about yy & p?
or to delete # number of lines: d#d
) and ( for sentence navigation? as well as w and b for word navigation

I use vi and vim exclusively to produce my website (which isn't saying much because most of it is one page right now). But if you look at the previous versions they have been done in vi/vim as well.

[Jason425]

That's a very good list! Well done!

Oh also if you ever get a chance try mouse gestures, on my desktop I love using opera and using gestures.

If you have opera, just click and drag left or right quickly. It's not so handy on my laptop, backspace and alt+arrow works nicer. you can get gestures for most browsers if you look for the plugins for ffox and such.

[Jason425]

if you want to go faster in firefox, get your fav links in the bookmarks toolbar, then open bookmarks and middleclick on the folder... it'll open everything in a tab. The same goes for middleclicking on "latest headlines".

random tips on speeding up firefox using "about:config" in the address bar:

http://mozillazine.org/misc/about:config/

[StinkyMojo]

Windows + D is kind of like a "Force Minimize". I use that if some games don't like Alt + Tab.

[Jason425]

Originally Posted by StinkyMojo

Windows + D is kind of like a "Force Minimize". I use that if some games don't like Alt + Tab.

Windows D means desktop. Pressing it again brings the same windows back up.

[lpxxfaintxx]

Originally Posted by xMerCLorDx

Useless keys never to use:

F1 - the most useless key ever.
Windows Logo+F1 - These two keys together are the worst pair of keys ever.

Actually, since most programs use F1 for their help item, it may be useful for some. I have to admit I used it a couple of times, after I was having some difficulties with the program.