n and p should move between next/previous toots in home view

[TeMPOraL]

It's customary in Emacs for read-only modes to use n/p keys as logical navigation. Everything from dired, through org mode agendas, magit, to Twitter modes work like this. I think for consistency's sake this would be a good default for Mastodon too :).

[jdenen]

So I originally thought about this when I made that navigation choice. The use of j/k to move up and down by toot was chosen for two reasons:

1. I'm a Spacemacs user and j/k is natural to me. I would be lying if that didn't play a part.
2. You still may want to move line by line. I would assume you'd use C-n/C-p to do that. It seems weird to me to have both n/p and C-n/C-p as navigation controls.

I'm willing to hear more opinions on this. I want to integrate better evil support into this anyway, so I could be persuaded to move j/k navigation into an only-with-evil default and default vanilla Emacs usage to n/p.

[TeMPOraL]

Thanks for mentioning the rationale!

Not sure how evil handles it, but in vanilla Emacs, n/p in read-only mode seems really common to have a meaning, sometimes a special one. Another example I noticed recently - and definitely official one - Custom mode (i.e. the one from M-x customize-*). There, n/p are bound to widget-forward/widget-backward respectively.

This issue is a bit of nitpicking anyway, so I'm not pushing for it hard, unless other people also agree; maybe most users of this mode are also users of evil.

(Personally, I've rebound n and p for myself for the stated reason, also g to mastodon-tl--update, and c as a new mastodon-toot, which is incidentally also customary in vanilla Emacs.)

EDIT: I see evil handles things by having some default key remappings built in, and relying on extra packages (like evil-collection or evil-magit) for changes specific to other modes.

[hdurer]

The default keybindings are indeed not intuitive/customary. +1 to improving that; they cost me a few brain cycles each time I try to remember how to do things.

[kaushalmodi]

Folks used to n/p for navigation might prefer these bindings for mastodon-mode-map: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-files/setup-mastodon.el

(Ignore the bindings to modi/* functions; those are defined in my config.)

I was also troubled that g was undefined.

[jdenen]

If you don't mind, @kaushalmodi, I'll probably steal these bindings for some upcoming changes.

[yisraeldov]

You might just want to make it conditional, detect for evil mode and then use j/k, but default should be standard emacs bindings.