I as a moderator that has to clean up quite some topic titles would appreciate it if there was a keyboard shortcut to start editing topic titles and categories. (I created a topic about that before, but it included also the request to save titles with Ctrl + Enter, and after that functionality was …

When at the top of the topic, press j then press e That should edit the first post.

And which one is that? “Keyboard shortcuts” modal doesn’t list any “edit topic” or “edit title” shortcuts.

As I am almost never initially at the top of the topic, I think I will have to k several times to get to the first post, then press e. Or is there a better way? (Unfortunately then there is no way (I found) to go to the input field for the title in a fast keyboard based way, so I created [Tab] shou…

[image] Sujan: Or is there a better way? Press the Home key before using j or k [image] Sujan: (Unfortunately then there is no way (I found) to go to the input field for the title in a fast keyboard based way, so I created [Tab] should work after "edit title" or using hotkeys ) That se…

[image] cpradio: Or is there a better way? Press the Home key before using j or k Ahh, Pos1 on my German keyboard :slight_smile: Thanks, this improves that workflow: Home → j → e

(Nice side effect I just noticed: Ctrl + Enter already works then to save the edits)

Keyboard shortcut to start editing topic titles and categories

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 6, 2017, 3:51pm 2

I would use the existing edit keyboard shortcut for this.

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