It happened to me more than once that a topic was posted even though I haven’t finished writing it, since some key combination (I don’t know which one, it always happened by accident) created the topic and/or sent a message. This is truly annoying, especially since no follow up email is sent, when editing this unfinished post. This means that someone who mainly reads their messages by mail, will only get part of a message. Is there any way to turn off keyboard shortcuts while creating a message/topic? (On a per user basis - maybe a checkbox in Preferences -> Interface.)

[image] pfaffman: The one that you’re hitting is controlenter. Nope, definitely not. My hand was not even close to the Enter key. In fact it happened when I hit some keys with either cmd, option, or control (or a combination of any of the meta keys) with my left hand. My right hand was not even on the keyboard. I believe you that control+enter is one shortcut that triggers that behavior, but it’s for sure not the only one. [image] pfaffman: I’m happy the they are on. I’m not. So what does that mean? I can’t turn them off? P.S.: I forgot to mention: thanks for the reply.

It is not possible to turn them off at the moment, no. This is the first time in 6 years I’ve heard anyone say it is an issue, though.

It’s not an issue per se, but this has happened to me several times already, so I’ve noticed it. That’s all. I’ve already started to write my responses in a text editor first, but this seems like a shitty workaround. Thus I hoped for an option, but I do understand if you do not want to add one. (Maybe not to deactivate all shortcuts, but just the one that posts the topic.) Or maybe it’s a glitch (bug) that some other key combination (besides ctrl+enter) triggers it.

I understand. If we can reproduce it, we can fix it.

I think I found it. It’s not a shortcut, but a sequence of keys. If you hit tab by accident and then press space the post is created/sent.

This can happen rather easily. You want to type ` and hit the TAB key instead. All following keys are ignored (which you might not notice right away) and if you then hit space… voilà. Maybe tab shouldn’t focus the reply button. Funny thing is that the button is not even highlighted. Usually an element looks different, if the focus is on that element.

Tab should definitely focus the reply button, it’s a major need for accessibility and keyboard navigation — the button should highlight (something similar to the screenshot below), maybe there’s an improvement we can make there. Which browser are you using? [33%20PM]

I’m using Firefox 65.0.1 on macOS, but my button looks like this when the focus is on it: [image] But highlighting it would not help in my situation. If this situation occurs, tab and space are so quickly pressed after each other that highlighting would not do anything. There are a few ways to improve the situation. If cancel were the first button to focus, this would never happen. Instead a popup would show up with the typical Are you sure you want to abandon your post? message. An option in preferences to require control+tab to jump out of the editor and focus Reply. I’d rather be able to enter tabs in the editor anyway. confirm sending the message (a similar popup like the one for canceling). choose the focus order (cancel, reply) or (reply, cancel)

[image] tessus: require control+tab to jump out of the editor and focus Reply . I’d rather be able to enter tabs in the editor anyway. Ctrl+Tab is standard browser behavior for going to the next tab, so it seems like a bad idea to override that.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 26, 2019, 11:46pm 2

The one that you’re hitting is controlenter.

I’m happy the they are on. To make your point, however, Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts are off by default.

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