Why not just an option to disable keyboard shortcuts with a warning, then? At this point I’m even fine with shortcuts being enabled by default (given the aforementioned issues).
Or, hell, if we’re gonna go full hog on the keyboard shortcuts, why not implement full VI-style shortcuts?
- “/” triggers in-topic search always
- Highlight results as soon as the search is complete (don’t make me press enter; close search box after search completes)
- “n” and “N” scroll to and double highlight (a drop shadow?) next occurrence and previous occurrence respectively.