Key equivalent for <kbd></kbd>

Question

The editor has key equivalents for all the buttons (Ctrl+B for bold, etc.). However, the most annoying thing to type is <kbd></kbd>, but there's no key equivalent for this. Can haz?

Answer 1

In the new Stacks Editor, the shortcut Keyboard Ctrl-' is introduced.
Reference: https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks-Editor/issues/51
Using the new shortcut you are able to create the Keyboard text in the editor.

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Answer 2

There's a userscript for this. It adds a keyboard shortcut (AltK), and a kbd button like this:

Update: The script now also adds a few other useful markdown shortcuts as well. See the post about the script at Stack Apps.

Directly install it from GitHub. (Requires Tampermonkey, or Violentmonkey, or equivalent.)

Answer 3

If every possible feature had an associated UI button to do the same thing, then there would be a stronger and stronger precedent to always have a UI button to do every little editing task. Then it would be impossible to add a new feature without also adding a new UI button. This is a fast track to a cluttered, unusable UI.

Also, people have been successfully training their fingers to type open-close HTML tags for twenty years. Get used to it.

Answer 4

Adding a keyboard shortcut would probably also include making people aware of its existence? Or make people who already knew about <kbd> use it more often? Please, no, don't increase using <kbd>.

(The formatting only looks acceptable to me on the Apple site. But even there it's not really needed, I feel. On all other sites: ugly, and hence, for me, annoying. As an aside: I see abuse of irrelevant inline tags too. Like here. I rarely see a true need for <kbd> or [tag].)