Which shortcut keys do you actually use on here?

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As I wrote in the tips thread, Discourse has a ton of shortcut key combinations which you can see by hitting the ‘?’ key (i.e. pressing shift-/) while not composing a post.

I’m curious which ones people actually use. The single shortcut I use regularly is Ctrl-k while in the editor to add a link to a selected word or phrase. Any other keyboard shortcuts that I should be using?

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Not going to lie, this is the first time I’ve even looked at them.

I learned to type on a typewriter and, after all these years of being glued to a desktop, I still use very few shortcuts. It’s just never become habit.

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My work here is done! :joy:

I actually went back and look through all of them. The only one I could see myself adding to the repertoire is the # key to quickly jump to a given post number. I regularly want to jump to post 1, and while there is a scrollbar, hitting # 1 enter is faster.

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+1

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I think we’re beginning to reach a consensus here. Nobody uses any of them! :sweat_smile:

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:vb-agree:

It’s not like I can use any of them on the iPad Pro 11 inch with touch anyway. I don’t attach the keyboard for browsing. And I mostly use dictation for posting.

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My access is usually through my Galaxy 6 Lite so no keyboard unless I’m in a typing box like now.

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Now I’m interested in How we all access the forum regularly.

I’m almost always on my MBP when I access it, but that’s mostly because I’m in front of my computer all day writing code through the VDI and I can just easily switch back and forth to check updates here. It’s something to do while my build is running.

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Nice question! Deserving of its own thread imo, but I’m totally fine if you want to discuss it here. Personally I’m addicted to the forum, so I check it on my iPhone and iPad (shortcut to ‘unread’ section) and on my Surface Laptop Studio about every half second… :smiley: Check the little blue bubble showing any quotes and likes, and then check any new discussions. Works pretty well, love it!

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For me hanging here is leasure time, hence I use my “leasure tablet”. I purposely don’t have a shortcut on my work device well aware that I can’t resist temptation.

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I thought we were all stylus users here, so no keyboards, just writing stuff out, and shortcuts have to be done using the stylus?

(which unfortunately has been unconscionably nerfed)

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Me too.

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Hadn’t realised there were shortcuts or that I needed them TBH.

Must read the tips thread…

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