Keyboard navigation ("hotkeys")

Below the Comment Settings section at the bottom of every story, we display the start of a list of keyboard commands. These “hotkeys” enable someone to move through the comments with the use of the keyboard alone.

Here, for your reference, is the full list explained in detail:

• ( L ) Recommend - capital-L to recommend a selected comment 
• ( r ) Reply - little-r to open the reply box to reply to a selected comment
• ( p ) Parent - little-p to jump to the parent comment and select it
• ( o ) Open/Close - little-o toggles the down arrow to collapse or expand the selected comment 
• ( j ) Next - little-j jumps to the next comment (from your current selected one) and selects it
• ( k ) Prev - little-k jumps to the previous comment and selects it
• ( 1 ) First Comment - Pressing 1 jumps to the first comment on the story and selects it
• ( 2 ) Last Comment - Pressing 2 jumps to the last comment on the story and selects it
• ( J ) Next Unread - capital-J jumps to the next unread comment and selects it
• ( K ) Prev Unread - capital-K jumps to the previous unread comment and selects it
• ( esc ) Unfocus Text Field - the escape key lets you leave a text field
• ( P ) Edit/Preview - capital-P toggles the Preview and Return to Edit state while writing a comment
• ( S ) Submit - capital-S posts  the comment you’re previewing
• ( c ) Cancel - little-c cancels the comment you’re writing