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I am a Vimium user who loves using the keyboard only. I appreciate the fact that Orion offers the ability to change the shortcuts via the macOS Keyboard Shortcuts settings. This, however, falls far short for a few reasons:

  1. macOS does not allow shortcuts with the same letter, differentiated by case: ⌘ + T vs ⌘ + t
  2. macOS does not allow shortcuts that would be “alone” (i.e., without a modifier): T, X, etc
  3. macOS does not allow shortcuts that aren't already present in the Orion menu: e.g., a shortcut to focus the URL bar
  4. macOS does not allow shortcuts that are chords: e.g., yy or gT

It is for these reasons that I request the ability to set custom keyboard shortcuts within Orion for ALL of Orion, including:

— History Navigation
— Tab Navigation
— Tab Management
— etc.

The remaining Vimium functionality (i.e., showing characters on every link after pressing f) can be left to those extensions that work. This would allow MOST of the functionality to be native to Orion.

See: Above, https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c, etc.

    Regarding 1 - isn't it just the difference between cmd-shift-t and cmd-t?

    regarding 3 - there is a shortcut to focus the url bar, cmd-l, as File->Open Location...

    Points 2 and 4 are what I would consider really "power user" features and thus not applicable to a large selection of orion users. these features generally wouldn't be prioritized as much

      I am not sure about MacOS rules about shortcuts. However,

      • Able to see all shortcuts is nice. It is a good way to learn how to use an app (Orion in this case) more efficiently
      • Personally, not able to reassign side bar shift+cmd+s to cmd+b is a pain. FF and vscode use cmd+b🤦‍♂️

        JSiu-Dev You can use cmd+b. not sure why you can't. just make sure to set it as a app shortcut for Orion specificlly

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            JSiu-Dev There aren't any that I know of. But still, some other alternatives:
            Raycast - free, more multi-purpose, but has a Search Menu Items command

            KeyCue - $30, also allows changing the shortcuts directly in the menu bar, and other features

            Finbar - $10, cool ui and tons of other features

            Paletro - $7

            ShowMeYourHotKeys - “main feature is free”, $8 for advanced features

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