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neru
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y3owk1n / neru

neru

Hints, grids and vim keys for your whole desktop. Built for macOS, linux and windows, natively.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
923GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Hints, grids and vim keys for your whole desktop. Built for macOS, linux and windows, natively.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2026-06-05 13:18:48 UTC to 2026-06-05 15:37:58 UTC.

012026-06-05 13:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-05 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 5, 13:002026-06-05 14:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-05 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 5, 14:002026-06-05 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-05 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 5, 15:00

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Jun 5, 13:002026-06-05 13:00:00 UTC2026-06-05 14:00:00 UTC101
Jun 5, 14:002026-06-05 14:00:00 UTC2026-06-05 15:00:00 UTC000
Jun 5, 15:002026-06-05 15:00:00 UTC2026-06-05 16:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru ...which supports Vimium-style hints mode as well as the grid-based approach shown in this "Mouseless (app) explained in 80 seconds" video. It also has a very responsive maintainer. Personally I like vimium's approach much better than the grid. Unfortunately not everything has a good accessibility tree (Zed sadly doesn't), but I just realized loading neru's page that I'm behind in versions. I haven't tried the "Native Vision OCR" addition to hints mode yet. I also like having a trackpad right on the keyboard (using a SoflePLUS2 right now though I'm not totally sold on column stagger). Then I can use a real pointing device with only a slight movement of one hand. In the Mouseless video, the creator has tried to minimize the distance by putting the mouse between the halves of his keyboard, but I think he's
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both compromised the keyboard position to ease using the mouse (arms wide and parallel with wrists turned inward rather than arms converging toward a more splayed keyboard with somewhat closer halves, untented to minimize vertical separation compared to the mouse) and might have an uncomfortably small mousepad to avoid doing this even more. Not a compromise I'd want to make.
In Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

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