Automatically open self post in comments when opened. about rtv

[michael-lazar]

I'm unsure what you mean by this. o is currently mapped to "open the selected link in a new web browser tab". Are you saying that this shouldn't be the case?

[Brobin]

I think he is pressing 'o' in the subreddit view and expecting it to open the submission view of the comments instead of the browser

[5225225]

Yes, if it's a self post, the url is set to the comments page of the post. Opening that should open it in the program itself, instead of using a browser.

I made the changes in my own fork, but I don't know if it's the best way, as I changed open_link to check if the selection is a self post, and calling self.open_submission. There might be a cleaner way to do this.

[michael-lazar]

Ok I understand now, thanks for elaborating. I appreciate hearing different viewpoints about how people are using the program. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of this suggestion. Here are the reasons why:

1. l is already available and does exactly what you're asking for.
2. IMO having the o key do two disjoint things is more confusing to explain to people.
3. In some cases you might actually want to actually open the comments in your browser, I don't want to take that option away.

[michael-lazar]

Closing for now, please reopen if you have additional info or ideas to add.