# Keyboard shortcuts wish list
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** keyboard-shortcuts
**Created:** [May 25, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952 "2014-05-25T10:36:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/41 "2014-09-16T15:21:45Z")
Also note my suggestion, coincidentally, isn’t the same as Home and End keys. They are to move selection! ☀
Maybe those would be different enough to justify listing.
And J and K comes from `vi`, I suppose. H and L there act as Pg Up and Pg Down, but Home and End would be close enough! 😉
Finally, in the help, J and K's translation are reversed as Down and Up - it’s saying “_Move selection ↑ ↓_” while it should say “_Move selection ↓ ↑_”.
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/42 "2014-12-22T00:21:10Z")
Me and a lot of my colleagues use the Built-in OSX Command shortcut keys. These are sane defaults based off of the same Bash shortcuts used throughout Linux.
Control + h to backspace
Control + b to move the cursor backward (same as the left arrow)
Control + k to clear a line of text
We use the shortcuts literally everywhere throughout OSX, from the command line to Gmail, and they are second nature to the extent that I can’t mentally turn them off.
I can understand the desire for markdown keyboard shortcuts, but these collide with widely used Control shortcut keys, and make typing in Discourse a frustrating experience.
Please make an option to toggle these markdown shortcuts off.
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/43 "2014-12-24T19:42:40Z")
> [@ossia](#):
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> Please make an option to toggle these markdown shortcuts off.
Word. Although I wouldn’t like to turn all of them off, and I’d instead just replace a few (such as CMD + L for CMD + K or leave just CTRL + L). 😛
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/44 "2014-12-27T12:48:20Z")
I suggest we change most of the Markdown shortcuts to use Ctrl + Shift as modifier keys. I just looked at [outlook.com](http://outlook.com) which does the same thing in their format toolbar.
E.g. the shortcut for the emoji selector is Ctrl + Shift + Y
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### Author:  [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/46 "2014-12-27T16:39:17Z")
Yes, this would solve the issue for me.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/47 "2015-08-04T08:47:28Z")
I’d really like to have the j and k shortcuts for navigating the full page search results (similar to Google search and the topic list in Discourse).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/48 "2015-08-04T09:03:14Z")
PR welcome, this should be a very simple change.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-wish-list/15952/49 "2018-01-18T22:17:58Z")
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