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VisualEditor: Please add a shortcut for adding a reference to a page (?which?)
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Description

Intention:
Add a reference

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Took hands off the keyboard.
  2. Grabbed mouse.
  3. Clicked "More" menu.
  4. Scrolled down.
  5. Clicked on "Reference".

Actual Results:
Works as designed.

Expected Results:
That it would work better than as designed: Leave hands on keyboard, press a couple of keys, and have the reference dialog pop open.

Reproducible: Always

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:37 AM
• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.
• bzimport set Reference to bz57452.
• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Nov 22 2013, 11:03 PM
Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Nov 25 2013, 3:53 PM

What would you suggest as the shortcut?

• Elitre added a comment.Nov 25 2013, 4:42 PM

Let's avoid symbols not available on non-English keyboards for a start, like backslash :p

• Whatamidoing-WMF added a comment.Nov 25 2013, 5:25 PM

My first choice is ctrl-alt-r, which unfortunately is in use as a shortcut to open Special:RecentChanges, and command-R is in use by the browsers to reload pages.

I'll personally use this enough that I'll be able to get used to just about anything. Maybe ctrl-alt-1, if you want this to work across multiple languages? Adding citations has "number one" importance to many Wikipedia editors.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 24 2014, 1:24 AM
nshahquinn-wmf closed this task as a duplicate of T99299: Make a better keyboard shortcut for adding a citation.Jul 24 2015, 7:07 PM
nshahquinn-wmf mentioned this in T99299: Make a better keyboard shortcut for adding a citation.Jul 24 2015, 7:13 PM
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