# Shortcut to reply prints an "R" into the composer window
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202 "2019-01-22T19:06:08Z")
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/1 "2019-01-22T19:06:08Z")
Looks like we’ve got a regression where hitting R to bring up the reply composer while viewing a post prints an “R” in the composer window, where it should be a blank composer. I can reproduce this on both meta and try.
Possibly due to the recent composer work, @nbianca ?
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### Author:  [@fhe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fhe)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/2 "2019-01-22T19:21:04Z")
In addition, it seems that reply to post via r is not working anymore, shift + r shows the above-mentioned behavior.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/3 "2019-01-22T19:22:37Z")
> [@fhe](#):
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> it seems that reply to post via r is not working anymore
Reply to post also prints an `r` into the composer, but it works. Have you selected a post to reply to first via j and k?
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/4 "2019-01-22T19:23:45Z")
Ninja’d!
I also noticed that the same issue exists on the r shortcut, too
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### Author:  [@fhe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fhe)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/5 "2019-01-22T19:26:08Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> Have you selected a post to reply to first via j and k?
Thanks for pointing. I was unaware of that necessity, learning new Discourse features every day 🤓
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/6 "2019-01-22T19:26:47Z")
> [@fhe](#):
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> Thanks for pointing. I was unaware of that necessity
Yep, without it Discourse doesn’t know which post you’re replying to 😃.
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### Author:  [@fhe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fhe)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/7 "2019-01-22T19:29:42Z")
I thought it takes the one which is active in the address bar, e.g, `107202/4` or `107202/5` (it somehow already knows which post I’m looking at).
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/9 "2019-01-22T20:03:36Z")
Might be ember3 , will look tomorrow
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [23 בינואר, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/10 "2019-01-23T10:43:29Z")
Should be fixed by:
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [23 בינואר, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/11 "2019-01-23T14:52:48Z")
We can’t do that based on the URL alone when there are multiple posts in the viewport, we can’t know which one you are replying to 😉
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### Author:  [@fhe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fhe)
#### Post date: [23 בינואר, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/12 "2019-01-23T15:10:34Z")
Somehow I knew that I was missing something 🙂 Thanks for the clarification!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [24 בינואר, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shortcut-to-reply-prints-an-r-into-the-composer-window/107202/13 "2019-01-24T02:22:33Z")