VSCode alike keyboard shortcuts

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There are a couple of use-cases that I think will be really handy for keyboard warriors like myself.

  1. Navigation palette using CMD + P that can be used to navigate to a subpage/doc or run a command on current text-selection.
  2. Shortcut chords. A great use-case for this would be being able to high different parts of the text with different colours easily using a chord like CMD + K followed by CMD + G for green, or CMD + R for red.
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Can we also please have a shortcut for editing column properties? (I tried the Menu Key and Shift + F10 on my keyboard, but both brought up the browser right-click menu rather than the Coda one.)

Mega bonus points: what about something like a general command palette e.g. Ctrl + Q in Edge? Where you can pull it up, search through all menu items/commands, and hit enter (and it shows the shortcut for that command if there is one, for future reference).

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@Amy_Weatherford a command palette would indeed be great and is part of my original suggestion too :slight_smile:

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Ah, I read that as only…like, you talked about a palette

that can be used to navigate to a subpage/doc or run a command on current text-selection.

If you look at the command palette in Edge, it doesn’t just do those things–you can navigate etc., but even just in the screenshot I have (filtered by the search I typed in) I see “Show bookmark manager”, “Focus toolbar”, “Move tab forward”, and the search through Favorites, History, etc.

So basically, the Edge one seems to run a good chunk of possible commands, including like…general browser commands, I guess I’d call them? Whereas the way I read what you wrote, I’d expect something kind of like Ctrl + P in Notion combined with a keyboard shortcut for the formatting menu. Like…
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That said, I wasn’t totally clear in my post–what I meant was to further develop your idea, not just ignore it :woman_facepalming: Sorry about that!

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No worries and thanks for the clarification! General Coda commands wasn’t something I thought of before but it makes sense. What would some of those commands look like for you apart from general search and navigation within Coda?

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Hi, sorry about the ridiculously late reply–I’m really bad about checking my community notifications… :sweat_smile:

Here are a few (assume for the sake of examples that the keyboard shortcut for the hypothetical palette is Ctrl + Q):

  • As in your original post, text formatting as individual commands. So I could use Ctrl + Q then type red, and I’d get the “red text” and “red highlight” options
  • Column properties. I haaaate having to right click or click a dropdown and then scroll through a UI menu every time I want to change almost anything to do with a column. If I have that column selected and Ctrl + Q, I should be able to type display and make it the display column, or description to edit the description, or options to edit the column options.
  • I’ve said this in a separate topic, but I’d love to have access to a code block preset to a particular language (e.g. HTML, CFL, JSON). Currently I have templates for my most frequently-used ones, but it’d be easier not to have to make said templates… Again, Ctrl + Q and type json might be a fantastic way to make this happen

There is, of course, the option to create custom shortcuts, and I’d definitely not say no to that if it’s implemented.

However, a command palette like I described would allow for a single shortcut (Ctrl + Q in my hypothetical) to give easy access to most or all commands individually via search.

Advantages:

  • I suspect this would be easier on the programmers than creating a system for custom shortcuts
  • It’s also easier on the user since they don’t have to create and then learn a ton of new shortcuts
  • As a bonus, it’d also allow for users whose browser conflicts with existing shortcuts to still easily access those commands
    • I have some extensions set up to use shortcuts, and they override Coda ones
    • So e.g. if Ctrl + \ to toggle page list conflicts with an already-existing shortcut I have, I could type Ctrl + Q and page and still easily access the command.)

Note 1: Rereading my post, I realized my description of the workflow reads wrong, and it’s difficult to describe properly within the post. Here’s how it goes in Edge (paraphrased/slightly edited from Microsoft Learn):

  1. In Microsoft Edge, press Ctrl + Q.
  2. Start typing. The commands are filtered based on your input characters, and are grouped into categories such as Suggestions, History, and DevTools:
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  3. Use keyboard up/down arrows to select a command, and Enter to run it. (Or use the mouse.)

Note 2: Apparently this was an experimental feature and was removed from Edge in version 123. :sob: