ALT-C, ALT-L, ALT-E problems

[byisk]

Hi,

yosz made an issue in 2013. It was closed but not fixed.

We use ALT key in Polish for characters such as ć, ą, ź etc.

Ghost's shortcuts are pain in the ass for Polish Ghost's users:

• Alt-C puts code block instead of 'ć' character
• Alt-L creates a numbered list instead of 'ł' character
• ALT-E switches to team members management instead of 'ę' character.
• ALT-S turns on the spellcheck instead of 'ś' character.

Do you plan to fix this? There could be a simple switch to turn off these shortcuts, for example.

[conwid]

Not just for Polish users, I'm guessing every Eastern-European language user/keyboard layout user has the same problem. For my Hungarian layout, ALT-C would be &, but obviously I cannot use it for the same reason and it is a pain for me to.
But I also like the shortcuts :) So in the long run, I'd say I wouldn't want to disable ALT-C (especially since for me ALT+38 gives the exact same character), but rather configure it to be something else.

[kevinansfield]

Alt-C puts code block instead of 'ć' character
Alt-L creates a numbered list instead of 'ł' character

These are an upstream issue as described in the related+closed issue here.

With the new editor that's in development they will no longer be an issue unless you're using the markdown card.

ALT-S turns on the spellcheck instead of 'ś' character.

Similarly this will be fixed with the new editor unless you're using the markdown card.

ALT-E switches to team members management instead of 'ę' character.

Unfortunately this stems from the keyboard manager we currently use. There's an upstream issue to add support but it hasn't had any traction.

Most of these issues will be resolved with the new editor or will require a large overhaul of our shortcut handling, as such I'm going to close this for now. As always we're open to PRs that address this issue.

[mordka]

@kevinansfield Would you accept a PR switching all the shortcuts off via toggle button?

[kevinansfield]

@mordka the issue needs to be fixed in CodeMirror, all of the markdown related shortcuts are registered in SimpleMDE using CodeMirror's extraKeys keyMap config.

ALT-E switches to team members management instead of 'ę' character

Looking at this again I don't know where this is coming from, we don't have any shortcuts registered to switch to the team screen.