Add Keybindings support

[DillonDepeel]

Is there a way to use keybindings to interact with carbonyl instead of using mouse? (like on browsh)

[bitcoinmeetups]

I second this. Keybindings and shortcut support would be useful. Think of what links has got for example. As far as I know there is not even a shortcut to go the address bar in carbonyl. Best would be configurable shortcuts.

[andrewp907]

Ditto for me. The real draw of carbonyl is not needing to fire up a graphical environment just to use necessary services whose designers assumed that everyone has Google Chrome installed. I do not have a mouse and I don't know whether anyone else has touchscreen support without logging into a desktop environment, but I certainly don't.

I would use browsh, but they seem to have the same problem: scrolling up and down is the only interaction available from the keyboard.

[Marat-Gumerov]

I hope there will be hotkeys like in Vimium extension

[arisolt]

+1 this feature is absolutely a must-have

[izelnakri]

Hi @fathyb I think there should be 2 solutions for this:

Either a nix-like configuration file where keys represent some string actions(Toggle address bar)/keybindings(). Cornlang is a great minimal alternative for this written in rust: https://cornlang.dev/

Or you can utilize ron and expose the Struct/Trait methods directly: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/blob/master/vim_style_key_config.ron

I'd love to have this feature as well. This could be super useful for using carbonyl as my TUI rendering engine. Esentially I can build dev tools like AI chat interfaces that could be written once as a web application, then used in the terminal with carbonyl under the hood or a localhost website.

[the-homeless-god]

+1