# Instructions on right and feedback on "wrong" keyboard shortcut usage

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/instructions-on-right-and-feedback-on-wrong-keyboard-shortcut-usage/65794
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** keyboard-shortcuts
**Created:** [7월 7, 2017, 7:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instructions-on-right-and-feedback-on-wrong-keyboard-shortcut-usage/65794 "2017-07-07T07:40:48Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [9월 6, 2018, 12:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instructions-on-right-and-feedback-on-wrong-keyboard-shortcut-usage/65794/12 "2018-09-06T00:27:34Z")

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Reopening this per:

> [@Disabling problematic hotkeys](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-problematic-hotkeys/96459/7):
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> The feature is a bug. When routing an action to a post, we check: Do we have a post highlighted with via j k ? 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 …

This needs a lot more though behind it. My position here is … you are opting for keyboard pain/love, learn to use the keyboard.

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