The feature is a bug.
When routing an action to a post, we check:
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Do we have a post highlighted with via
jk? ok, use that -
Do is mouse cursor hovered on a post, ok use that.
This is a recent change introduced via:
The problem it was trying to solve is, "how do I know I can hit e and get it to do something?`
The keyboard shortcuts talk about it here:
The original “proposal here” was to pop some help, this is what gmail does:
My call is that the solution of “routing to hovered” does not go anywhere towards teaching, I am also super on the fence about the “teaching” approach here even the one gmail uses.
Like is odd, cause it has some special routing code that does not go through a common path, will sort that out.