# Scrolling over post indicator should sroll post wise
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365 "2014-05-06T21:14:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@richardlm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richardlm)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/1 "2014-05-06T21:14:04Z")
It would be nice when when hovering over the post indicator (xx of zz) the scrolling would not be line wise, but post wise, i.e. skipping one post per “scroll”.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/2 "2014-05-08T00:19:07Z")
I am not follow… an illustrated example with screenshot please?
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### Author:  [@richardlm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richardlm)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/3 "2014-06-18T08:09:41Z")
Well, with the post indicator I mean the green rectangle in the lower right (the topic progress bar).
And with post-wise scrolling I mean, I mean post-wise scrolling. 😉 E.g. in a good pdf reader you can scroll page-wise, so you don’t have to scroll through each line of every page, but page-wise.
I hope that this makes it more clear…
The feature would be helpful for big threads, like:
> **[Count to ten thousand! (Part 1)](https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/count-to-ten-thousand-part-1/32436)**
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> Simplest game ever: Count to 10,000! One number per post Bonus points for style: posting an image, quotes, or suchlike. We played this game on another forum I frequented and it took four and a half years to finish. They’ve been counting...
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/4 "2014-06-18T08:45:01Z")
Try the keyboard shortcuts to move post-by-post. Press ? to see them listed.
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### Author:  [@richardlm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richardlm)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/5 "2014-06-19T09:34:56Z")
Aha, nice… and to have this available at the mouse-wheel would be great!
Two things I noted with post-wise scroll:
1. In my keyboard layout ‘j’ is left of ‘k’, so it is quite awkward that ‘j’ is scrolling down and ‘k’ up. In an LTR environment you would expect the right button to scroll down.
2. I think the higlighted post is too much in the middle of the screen (vertical). It’s nice that you can see something of the former post. But currently it is IMHO too much. At first I thought the scrolling was screwed and it was truncating the posts.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/6 "2014-06-19T10:23:55Z")
> [@richardlm](#):
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> In my keyboard layout ‘j’ is left of ‘k’, so it is quite awkward that ‘j’ is scrolling down and ‘k’ up. In an LTR environment you would expect the right button to scroll down.
Here’s the reason behind these shortcuts
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### Author:  [@richardlm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richardlm)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/7 "2014-06-19T11:11:21Z")
??? Because you have arrows painted on your keyboard?
I have never seen this before, is this a new standard or what?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/8 "2014-06-19T12:21:02Z")
It’s an [**old** standard](http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys/).
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scrolling-over-post-indicator-should-sroll-post-wise/15365/9 "2025-12-04T11:14:23Z")