# Auto-complete without mouse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-without-mouse/390421
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 4, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-without-mouse/390421 "2025-12-04T15:18:40Z")
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### Author: ![pHneutre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/phneutre/32/326831_2.png) [@pHneutre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pHneutre)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-without-mouse/390421/1 "2025-12-04T15:18:41Z")

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Just a little something real quick. When I’m typing a message, I want to be able to use my keyboard only and not having to grab the mouse at each auto-complete contextual menu (@mention, #category, #tag, emojis). It breaks my flow.

I expect to be able to navigate in the pop-up menu with the arrows like:

- _Enter_ is “auto-complete with the selected item”
- _arrow up and down_ navigate the items

Sadly this doesn’t work.  
Is there a way to achieve keyboard navigation in contextual pop-up menus, and if not, could it be a ✨ feature request pl0x?

xoxo

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