The ‘e’ key binding for editing posts is not working for some users, including craigconstantine and Heather_Dudley. They have tried various scenarios, including pressing ‘e’ while highlighting a post or owning the topic, but it does not work. However, bloomexperiment suggested that selecting a post using j/k before pressing ‘e’ does work. sam agrees with this workaround and suggests that it would be a good feature request to have the ‘e’ binding work without needing to explicitly select a post. Heather_Dudley confirms that this is the expected behavior, and sam encourages creating a top-level feature request for this change.
In my hosted-discourse install ( https://forum.moversmindset.com/ ) when I go to a topic, pressing ‘e’ does nothing. Bindings are working generally… ‘c’ pops open the new topic editor.
I thought it might be an interaction with the Table-of-contents theme component… nope. ‘e’ not bound to Edit Post wether or not I have TOC inserted in the post.
I thought it might be who owns the topic, versus simply my being able to edit. (I’m an admin) … nope. Can’t even ‘e’ my own Topics.
C also works for me, but e does not on my installation. It’s a mixed bag whether keyboard shortcuts work or not. Here on meta, I was able to use c to open this composer. l did not like your post. s did not share it. I’m using Chrome 89 on Windows 10.
I don’t have a Bluetooth keyboard to test right now on iPad, but just to quickly check: in those cases with e and l, did you use j/k to select a post prior to trying to like it, etc.?
Cool can you make a top level Contribute > Feature request on this, I think it is a reasonable change and should not be too hard to implement making life for mixed keyboard / mice users a bit nicer.
