Implemented Add Insert Link Keyboard Shortcut (Cmd + K)

[owls8521]

Most applications use Cmd + K (Ctrl + K on PC) to insert a link. Pressing this in Xenforo's text editor creates an ordered list. What was the reasoning for choosing that shortcut?

Is there a list of keyboard shortcuts for the text editor somewhere? If there is already an insert link shortcut, I can get used to it, but I'd still recommend changing it to the standard.

 

[Julio Franco]

I second this. Inserting links must be the most used keyboard shortcut next to bold/italic.

Some editors use Cmd + L
Others use Cmd + K. In fact, this is what Redactor uses by default but in Xenforo it's broken.

 

[brunoedig]

Totally agreed! Would be really good to have it!

 

[nothingatall]

This would be very helpful. I'm surprised it's mapped to ordered list instead.

 

[doublespaces]

I'm not sure why this isn't being done. Is there a way to manual edit this or an addon?

 

[Chris D]

It is done - it works fine in XF2.

Cmd+K for macOS and Ctrl+K for Windows.

You can see a tooltip when you hover over the buttons which will tell you what the shortcut is.

 

[doublespaces]

That is great news. I'm eager to upgrade to xf2 but my site is add-on heavy and a good but of custom work so I'll have to lag behind a bit for production use. I remember seeing these shortcuts defined in some file somewhere, is it possible to manually edit that file to change this behavior in XF1?

 

[Chris D]

Probably not. Likely related to the XF1 editor not using the native editor dialogs for things like link insertion.