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Google is running, among its experiments, a keyboard friendly Google search.

Key     Action
J       Selects the next result.
K       Selects the previous result.
O       Opens the selected result.
<Enter> Opens the selected result.
/       Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc>   Removes the cursor from the search box.

A really sweet feature - just too bad you cannot configure your own key bindings…

Edit: Ohh, jorunnix, thanks for pointing it out: just add &esrch=BetaShortcuts at the end of the GET URL for your Google search

For quite some time I have been using my own Emacs Keyboard Bindings in Opera. Time to share (v 0.1).

The basic idea is to have frequently used bindings quickly accessible by one-key bindings in both the browser and the mailer, and reserve simple prefixes for subgroups of actions, more complex prefixes for more rarely used bindings. Models have been Emacs itself, some text browsers (and emacs-w3m) and some mail readers (and Gnus). Not all the functionality could be mapped one-to-one, and not everything I have chosen to map directly.

I follow the Emacs convention for key combinations and sequences, but use Ctrl and Alt instead of C and M. Keys that are to pressed simultaneously are connected with a dash (-), and keys following each other are to be pressed in sequence.

Browsing
For the basic browsing functionality the following bindings are available:

g                prompt for a URL
c                copy URL of document
u                copy URL of selected link
e                edit URL of document
E                edit URL of selected link
h                go to homepage

n                go forward
b                go back
r                reload

a                add URL of document to bookmarks
s                subscribe to feed

Editing
In editing context I use Emacs bindings (including Ctrl-w for cutting, and not for closing the active tab, as the binding in the default configuration does):

Ctrl-w           cut
Alt-w            copy
Ctrl-k           cut to end of line
Ctrl-y           paste
Shift-ins        paste PRIMARY (mouse selection)
Ctrl-u           clear
Ctrl-_           undo

Mail
The main bindings in mail view are simple and straight-forward:

Shift-g          retrieve new mail
n                next mail
p                previous mail
k                mark mail as read
m                compose new mail
r                reply to mail
Ctrl-c Ctrl-c    send message

And last but not least,

Ctrl-x Ctrl-s    save
Ctrl-x Ctrl-c    quit Opera

A more complete list of bindings is also available with Ctrl-h b.

Note:
Due to Opera's handling of bindings, it might be that you need to fix some of the shortcuts: they are commented in the INI file. The commented out version is what the binding is supposed to be, and you might need to adapt this to your keyboard layout. One example: Ctrl-_ is the binding for undo, but on a US keyboard layout you'll need the following in your INI file:

- ctrl shift=Undo

Enjoy - and feedback welcome!


Update:
Some updates in mail bindings, and other small fixes.

Update 2:
Some more minor fixes, and you can now also get it from the opera keyboard setups section in the community.

Update 3:
A few more minor fixes and some more bindings (thanks petteri). 2007-05-22