Formating text by keyboard shortcut not markdown#89

Using CRTL+B to bold or CTRL+I to italic are easier than using **, * or other symboles which you’ve introduced here.

Came here to write this exact ticket!
Keyboard shortcuts, and bonus points for buttons that do it as well.

Example: https://www.slatejs.org/#/rich-text

@kokabi Great idea!

@Grant.kiely Thank you for the link!

Yes, please! Even better would be the inclusion of rich text formatting by button, just as Grant stated. What he linked to looks very slick!

I would also note that the supported markdown elements are limited. For example, being able to make header elements, block quotes, or even the ability to select from different fonts, would be a great feature to provide uniqueness and design to our boards. Thanks!

Would still like to see this! Confluence has a decent example of this for keyboard shortcuts.

+1. Would be useful to have this.

I believe everyone here wants is a CYGWIN editor like tinymce, ckeditor or froala.

But know that I think about markdown that the full support of it would be awesome, with images through links and some other things.

Bumping this, ran into it again today.

I’ll just add some additional context to this.

Inevitably when I’m editing a post or comment I might want to add some formatting, such as bold, strikethrough, quote, italics or a list.

The majority of the time I will either highlight the text and press ⌘ + B, realize it doesn’t work, then type it out. If it’s a more complex formatting that I don’t remember I click the link, look it up, then attempt to type it out.

Contrast this to github where I type the keyboard shortcut and it updates the text. The flow is much simpler. It also has the icons for users who don’t know the commands.
https://github.com/gkiely/vite-react-starter/issues/new

If I was to suggest a simple first implementation, I would say just copy github issues for the markdown that you support, maybe add strikethrough shortcut as they are missing that.

If you have any additional questions about the problem I’m happy to assist.

This is now live! You can use Cmd/Ctrl+B to bold and Cmd/Ctrl+I to italicize.

Awesome thanks!