With all the smoothness of Discourse, I’m surprised this doesn’t already exist (it exists in Wordpress - you know, that ugl…wonderfully coded thing). I many times link to existing topics on our Discourse installation, and I have to navigate to it, copy the link to clipboard, come to the new post an…

[image] pfaffman: Which doesn’t really explain the secret shortcut you describe. :wink: If you scroll down there you get to https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-about-mentioning-topic-feature/7350/44?u=falco

I for one am a now a big fan of the secret shortcut. Now if only it could also search the github repo so that I could quickly link to INSTALL_cloud. Maybe CTRL-ALT-SUPER-F could search that too. :wink:

I know you are joking but that is actually possible with a plugin, and @vinothkannans created just that for a customer :exploding_head:. Basically on search you hit an external service, and merge the results in the search results.

[image] Falco: I know you are joking but that is actually possible with a plugin, and @vinothkannans created just that for a customer :exploding_head:. Very cool! Actually, what would be cool and pretty easy here is that replace-a-word theme that would re-write INSTALL-cloud (and something f…

I think a transparent inline search with suggestions like the Tags box (with a longer delay after last keypress, if we’re worried about traffic/cpu) is much better than a secret shortcut. Anyone else? Is there a chance it will get implemented?

I’d support this, although it probably only make sense as a plugin or behind a site setting. It would be super useful for example in Wiki categories.

Shortcut works for me, but we should definitely publicise it. Something discobot could teach?

Shortcuts are great. What I don’t dig is shortcuts that accomplish things you can’t do from the UI. Also, I just tried to click ctrl alt f on my phone, but I couldn’t.

I really like in-line cause I don’t have to jump around as much, but finding a trigger here is ultra hard, all the good ones are taken. Maybe #howto:search #howto:”search here” could work, not sure, recommend somebody from the wider community experiments in a theme component

[image] sam: I really like in-line cause I don’t have to jump around as much, but finding a trigger here is ultra hard, all the good ones are taken. Why not just making it a part of the link modal that you open with Ctrl + K?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 8, 2018, 10:57am 22

Oh that’s very a pinteresting idea. I like that.

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