The toolbar items in WikiEditor have keyboard shortcuts associated with them. However, they don't include them in their title attribute so they're not particularly discoverable. For bold/italic this is fine, as those are incredibly standard in all editors ever, but most of the other shortcuts are less well known
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Change #1172907 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Allow hotkeys to be strings for e.key as well as deprecated codes
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Change #1172908 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Display hotkeys in the titles of toolbar elements
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Change #1172907 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Allow hotkeys to be strings for e.key as well as deprecated codes
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Change #1172908 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Display hotkeys in the titles of toolbar elements
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Draft suggestion: "The WikiEditor toolbar will now include its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its items in order to improve discoverability"
I created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Keyboard_shortcuts which I could not find any equivalent of, which may want to be linked to.
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I've put them on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikiEditor#Keyboard_shortcuts and then transcluded them on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Keyboard_shortcuts. Hope it's okay.
- Shouldn't they go here too: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts ?
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@Quiddity moved this task from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Will this be in Tech/News for the CodeEditor with VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor only, or regarding MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror too? Maybe pause this until they've fixed clash of COMMAND + [,] or maybe just made a decision about it: T400569, T399295 and T400569 ? Or whichever I'm just giving my two cents.
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Don't see any reason to delay it -- the general exposure of the hints is a separate matter from whether the hotkeys were wisely chosen.
(I was surprised to discover that they were only added to WikiEditor back in 2024, I'll admit.)