[image] Add 'Edit Body' pencil at top of post For “Power Users”:tm:, we have several keyboard shortcuts :keyboard:! You can browse posts using j and k and quickly open the edit composer on the selected post using e. Press ? to learn more! Thanks for the pointer! I happen to have a find-as-y…

[image] ganncamp: As a sidenote, in Jira I get the find-as-you-type behavior and the intended effect of keyboard shortcuts. Is the “find-as-yout-type” the standard Firefox one or is it a custom extension? Are the Jira shortcuts key combos or simple keys like us? Don’t you have a shortcut to…

[image] Falco: Is the “find-as-yout-type” the standard Firefox one or is it a custom extension? I’m in Chrome, Ubuntu. I got the extension years ago from the marketplace (and I love it). It’s called Type-ahead-find . [image] Falco: Are the Jira shortcuts key combos or simple keys like us? …

…aaaand still nothing. :woman_shrugging:

As a followup, it seems that f (bookmark) works, but e does not.

e is working for me in Chrome/Windows; did you have a post selected? I can’t think of any reason f bookmark would work when edit would not though.

The custom browser extension captures the keyboard event and prevent it from popping to us.

[image] ganncamp: I happen to have a find-as-you-type extension installed that apparently blocks that functionality, so that doesn’t work for me, but it would have been nice. Doesn’t this feature already exist in Chrome? Press ctrl+f and type to match. I am unclear why an extension would be …

Hi, To be clear, I’ve blacklisted the forum in the find-as-you-type extension, so it’s no longer blocking anything - if it ever was; as I said, the keyboard shortcuts work in Jira. [image] codinghorror: e is working for me in Chrome/Windows; did you have a post selected? Could you elaborate…

[image] Add 'Edit Body' pencil at top of post You can browse posts using j and k and quickly open the edit composer on the selected post using e. Per the above ↑

Wow! It seems the only way to “select” a post is to “browse” to it using j/k. If I click a post a dozen times it does nothing. It’s only when I use the keyboard that the red selection indicator is added to the interface! Since I wasn’t aware of the keyboard shortcuts it never occurred to me to use t…

Issues with using keyboard shortcut to select post to edit

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 5, 2019, 11:48am 10

As per the above ↑

Topic		Replies	Views
Allow keyboard short cut 'e' to be used when "selecting" a post via highlight Feature	0	405	April 9, 2021
K hotkey should select current post when none is selected Feature	9	864	March 24, 2020
Instructions on right and feedback on "wrong" keyboard shortcut usage UX keyboard-shortcuts	12	1880	September 8, 2018
Change in shortcuts focus on posts UX	4	743	April 9, 2018
Did the 'e' key binding for Edit Post stop working? Support	6	576	April 8, 2021

Issues with using keyboard shortcut to select post to edit

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