You forgot @
for mentions and :
for emojis. And no, we never discussed about removing shortcuts (for mentions, links or any other feature). That’s not the point of the slash shortcut. Having a slash shortcut that exposes features such as linking and mentioning doesn’t mean we have to slow down power users by preventing them from using existing shortcuts:
- force them to type
/men
+ Enter instead of simply @
- force them to type
/lin
+ Enter instead of simply [
Note that all these shortcuts you mentioned (maybe except {
) provide suggestions that are not directly available in the slash (quick actions) drop down, so they help power users speed up the editing.
The auto-suggest drop down doesn’t prevent the user from typing. The only issue is if you press Enter while there is a suggestion (e.g. quick action) selected in the drop down. This will activate the suggestion, inserting some content or executing some command. If you don’t want that then you need to use the Escape key to close the drop down.
I don’t know. I haven’t seen any complains from our users that we have too many shortcut keys. If a feature is used often and we can introduce a shortcut key to help the power users without annoying the simple users then I don’t see why we shouldn’t do it.
We already have a shortcut for Bold, that is well known. I’m not sure adding another one brings much value. As for lists, I don’t know. If our users will ask for it or if someone is willing to sponsor it then I guess we can implement it, but I don’t think it brings as much value as the link or mention shortcuts, that provide you with information that is not always easy to get (e.g. page reference or user reference).
It’s not only one more char to type, e.g. you need to type /men
+ Enter (i.e. you usually type until the first suggestion is the one you’re looking for). I think that:
-
/
will be used by simple users, that don’t want to bother remembering other shortcuts, or at least until they discover the other shortcuts (that are shown in the slash drop down)
- dedicated shortcuts will be used by power users, once they learn then.
Thanks,
Marius