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Tomahawk

Forum Mod

From: UK

Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 2,847

Shortcuts for BBcode

Is it possible?

Could I highlight some text in a post, hit Alt + I or something and see that highlighted text magically surrounded by BBcode italics, thus saving me the effort of using the mouse while writing a long post?

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HeyNK

Member

Joined: 2017-04-07

Posts: 1,318

Re: Shortcuts for BBcode

Probably could use a macro if you're a full time forum user.

hummerz5

Member

From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,853

Re: Shortcuts for BBcode

$("textarea").keypress("",function(e) {
  if (e.altKey && e.key == 'i'){
    insert_text('[i]', '[/i]');
  }
});

here you go (I should probably add the others huh)

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Tomahawk

Forum Mod

From: UK

Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 2,847

Re: Shortcuts for BBcode

^ What am I supposed to do with that?

I use Edge.

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hummerz5

Member

From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,853

Re: Shortcuts for BBcode

get a different browser, I guess :b

or beg diff to add something like it. Currently your option is to go into the console and paste that in. Or make it a bookmarklet

edit:

I added ugly support for all buttons:

$("textarea").keypress("",function(e) {
  var hotkeys = ['b', 'i', 'u', 's', 'h', '`', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '-' ,'='];
  var index = hotkeys.indexOf(e.key);
  if (e.altKey && index != -1){
    $("#bbcodebar").children()[index].click();
  }
});

Problem is, which keys do you give to which buttons? there's 17!

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