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?
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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.
Screenshot for reference:
GIF for reference:
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.)
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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.
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17Agreed, and I don't need a button, I'd just like a keyboard shortcut.– jtbandesAug 18, 2011 at 4:04
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]
.)
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I suspect that this (the possibility of increasing awareness about the
<kbd>
tag) is precisely the reason that we don't have an easier way to use it. Jeff disabled<kbd>
completely here on Meta once, citing ridiculous overuse, and he'd probably do the same thing across the network if it became a problem. Given that I like it and wish for it to stay around, I'm not sure a shortcut is a good idea... Aug 18, 2011 at 8:02 -
1@Cody What would you say about that though? Getting to Windows 7 shutdown menu with the keyboard (see Jeff's edits)– slhckAug 30, 2011 at 17:45
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Nice find, @slhck. And, I wonder if that's about testing a keyboard shortcut; editing in HTML is not a fun task...– ArjanAug 30, 2011 at 17:54
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what on earth is wrong with using the kbd tag itself?? thus:- <kbd>kbd</kbd> Aug 13, 2014 at 17:25
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Umm... not only the apple site. Many software related sites, like Super User, Graphic Design and Blender to name a few, all use the kbd functionality a lot. Jul 10, 2015 at 15:00
<kbd>
tags? I mean really need it. I just don't see this being accepted by the team if they think it was necessary to remove shortcuts to save (which is much more useful than<kbd>
tags IMHO).<kbd>
doesn't improve post quality? I was going to edit a post to add<kbd>
tags to improve it, but found it annoying when I had more than one set to add. This is also especially noticeable on sites that tend to use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, such as AskDifferent. Also, what do you mean by "to remove shortcuts to save"?