Can't type an @ symbol in the forums from a mac

helmi

Hey guys,

i'm on a mac with OSX 10.10 (Yosemite, Developer Preview) and i can't type an @ symbol here in the forums as Alt+L (which is the key combo for @ on a mac) is hooked by the editor for creating lists. Is this a known problem? I guess it should be.

Let me know if i could input any additional information.

a_5mith

Who thought that was a good idea. don't understand macs sometimes.

I think this forum may be using @frissdiegurke's plugin that utilises keyboard shortcuts. Might be a conflict there.

frissdiegurke

It's correct that my plugin causes this issue.
Since I don't have any more cross-browser-information about keys than the keycode and which mod-keys are pressed it's impossible to find a clean way of work-around for such bad matches.

I've tried my best not to get any conflicts with US/UK layouts and most popular modern browsers, it'd be much effort and result in less intuitive keybindings to support any layouts (I guess yours is german mac-layout?).
Since the key-bindings are completely configurable within ACP the admins of german boards may choose to change this...

The only (easy) way to completely solve this on plugin-side I can think of would be adding an input-mode
Any opinions?

julian

While we're here, I believe @psychobunny also experienced much trauma when he wrote 90% of a post, then attempted to select the address bar on firefox with the Alt-D shortcut, and watched in horror as NodeBB promptly discarded his post

Edit: Ironically, this works fine on Chrome, Ctrl-D bookmarks this page as intended

Edit: Ah, it's Alt-D, edited.

frissdiegurke

@julian said:

While we're here, I believe @psychobunny also experienced much trauma when he wrote 90% of a post, then attempted to select the address bar on firefox with the Alt-D shortcut, and watched in horror as NodeBB promptly discarded his post

Edit: Ironically, this works fine on Chrome, Ctrl-D bookmarks this page as intended

Edit: Ah, it's Alt-D, edited.

Didn't we tell him once to use one of the many other keybindings to go into address bar

I just tried with the text above and it really discarded without a dialog to ensure...
What are the minimum requirements to open this dialog, maybe they can get more soft?

julian

It's been a while, but the requirements to open the discard confirmation dialog is simply "if the text area has been edited", so it does seem like a bug on our end...

trevor

¬_¬ Interesting.

a_5mith

@julian said:

While we're here, I believe @psychobunny also experienced much trauma when he wrote 90% of a post, then attempted to select the address bar on firefox with the Alt-D shortcut, and watched in horror as NodeBB promptly discarded his post

alt

F6 is my chosen shortcut of choice for selecting the Address Bar.

julian

Ctrl-L, for me, and I really don't like when apps I use override that (I'm lookin' at you, Google Docs and Ghost...)

psychobunny

Didn't we tell him once to use one of the many other keybindings to go into address bar

You guys suck.

a_5mith

@psychobunny wants the Ctrl+D.