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.
I suggest we change most of the Markdown shortcuts to use Ctrl + Shift as modifier keys. I just looked at outlook.com which does the same thing in their format toolbar.
E.g. the shortcut for the emoji selector is Ctrl + Shift + Y