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WikiEditor: Provide some basic formatting and action keyboard shortcut commands
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CTRL/CMD+B for bolding highlighted text
CTRL/CMD+I for italicising highlighted text
CTRL/CMD+U for underline highlighted text

CTRL+1,2,3 for H1,H2, H3, etc

CTRL/CMD+K for linking highlighted text


Version: master
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:59 AM
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Moving to WikiEditor; we're probably going to kill the difference between the two, but for now…

I'm not sure which of these is most uptodate, but... here are some known knowns.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Access_keys

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Portal/Keyboard_shortcuts

I think it is very unlikely this will ever be added to WikiEditor, now that we have VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor providing this functionality.

In the meantime, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Участник:Stjn/wikiEditorShortcuts.js provides similar functionality. But I do think that all modes of editing need to have the same keyboard shortcuts (at least where that makes sense) for a better user experience.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:23 PM

I'm about to implement the shortcuts in Convenient-Discussions as this is requested by users and I would rather not implement this apart from WikiEditor which Convenient Discussions employs. But if there is no activity in this task, I will have to.

I think it is very unlikely this will ever be added to WikiEditor, now that we have VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor providing this functionality.

As time has shown, the majority of users didn't migrate to that.