⚓ T62928 WikiEditor: Provide some basic formatting and action keyboard shortcut commands
- ️Thu Feb 06 2014
WikiEditor: Provide some basic formatting and action keyboard shortcut commands
Closed, ResolvedPublicFeature
WikiEditor: Provide some basic formatting and action keyboard shortcut commands
Closed, ResolvedPublicFeature
CTRL/CMD+B for bolding highlighted text
CTRL/CMD+I for italicising highlighted text
CTRL/CMD+U for underline highlighted text
CTRL+1,2,3 for H1,H2, H3, etc
CTRL/CMD+K for linking highlighted text
Version: master
Severity: enhancement
Event Timeline
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Moving to WikiEditor; we're probably going to kill the difference between the two, but for now…
I'm about to implement the shortcuts in Convenient-Discussions as this is requested by users and I would rather not implement this apart from WikiEditor which Convenient Discussions employs. But if there is no activity in this task, I will have to.
The currently merged patch is a step in the good direction, but it doesn’t contain any indication for editors that they can press certain shortcuts to press the buttons. Would be good to add that.
@SD0001 also, just as a note, is Ctrl+1/2/3/4/5 not being a thing intentional? Those are available in the visual editor and seem very useful to have.
Submitted the revert above because the patch basically makes it impossible for me to copy/paste things, since it hijacks Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on dvorak keyboards (and possibly other layouts too?). The revert commit message has suggestions for how to fix this.
AFAIK he new provided patch and the suggestion would make it impossible to use this feature for people on non-Latin keyboards (since e.key for K doesn’t match to K or k on a Russian keyboard, it would match to Л or л), therefore reducing the usability of this tremendously. I understand the concern with Dvorak keyboards, but maybe there are better ways to resolve this than this.
AFAIK he new provided patch and the suggestion would make it impossible to use this feature for people on non-Latin keyboards (since e.key for K doesn’t match to K or k on a Russian keyboard, it would match to Л or л), therefore reducing the usability of this tremendously. I understand the concern with Dvorak keyboards, but maybe there are better ways to resolve this than this. Did you test this? My understanding is that when Cmd/Ctrl modifiers are held pressed, e.key will be k even on a non-Latin keyboard. Caps lock also doesn't make a difference with Cmd/Ctrl pressed, e.key is always in lowercase.
Only like this:$( '#wpTextbox1' ).on( 'keydown', ( e ) => {
console.log( e.key );
} );
Noting that I am now unable to copy/paste in the editor since I use Dvorak. It looks like this will be reverted by next Thursday, but any workaround in the meantime?
Workaround is to turn on syntax highlighting. The shortcuts don't work with CodeMirror enabled.
Both of those links work fine! The only issue for me is in the normal editor ("action=edit"), when syntax highlighting is off.
This is quite frustrating for dvorak users ... any timeframe for it being reverted / help pointing out how to turn syntax highlighting on? Surprised this wasn't mentioned in yesterday's Tech News.
To turn on syntax highlighting, click the highlighter icon in the toolbar.
To turn on syntax highlighting, click the highlighter icon in the toolbar. Aah, thanks! That workaround does work well.
I still think Ctrl+1/2/3/4/5/6 should’ve been also added. It was also in the task description. I don’t think resolving this task without it is satisfactory enough.
You can file a separate task for that – those are more controversial as they conflict with browser shortcuts for navigating between tabs on Windows. This ticket is for "basic formatting and action keyboard shortcut commands". (Not to mention being harder to implement as the VE behaviour is to use Control key instead of Cmd on Mac.)
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