Last modified: 2013-11-01 05:33:55 UTC
I think "Clear formatting" is important enough to justify a keyboard shortcut. For example, there are cases where the formatting can unintentionally continue longer than you want, such as when you add a link.
Shortcuts used in other programs are: Ctrl + Spacebar - Used by Word for "Remove paragraph or character formatting."/"Remove manual character formatting" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938). Ctrl + \ - Used by Google Docs for "Clear formatting" (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/179738?hl=en) Ctrl + M - Used by LibreOffice for "Clear direct formatting" (https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/General_Shortcut_Keys_in)
I can see wanting to use Ctrl + Spacebar for a general whitespace inserter menu (nbsp/tab/etc.), so how about we go with Ctrl + \?
Ctrl + M might be a little friendlier. I know from experience people confuse backslash and forward slash. But I don't feel strongly about it.
Change 76666 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Add keyboard shortcut for 'clear' button https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76666
Change 76666 merged by jenkins-bot: Add keyboard shortcut for 'clear' button https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76666
Now merged and will go out with the next production push, probably tomorrow.
Except there is no \ key on keyboards like the French one, so the shortcut is reported as not working (also, provoking weird behaviour I'll report elsewhere), since they should type CTRL + Alt Gr + 8. Can we do something about this? Thanks.
(In reply to comment #7) > Except there is no \ key on keyboards like the French one, so the shortcut is > reported as not working (also, provoking weird behaviour I'll report > elsewhere), since they should type CTRL + Alt Gr + 8. Can we do something > about this? Thanks. Weird behaviour reported on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53682
Re-closing; have made bug 56453 for the suggestion to add a new one for other keyboards.
