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tofflos

opened on Oct 7, 2023

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What happened?

I have to move my hands from the keyboard, grab the mouse, and click the Run and Clear buttons.
Afterwards I have to click the text area to continue editing.

Consider adding a keyboard shortcut such as Control + Return for launching Run and showing the keyboard shortcut as a tooltip.
Consider moving the keyboard focus back to text area after launching Run and Clear.

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Windows

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Firefox

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1. tofflos

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2. delabassee

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3. delabassee commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

   delabassee

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   It's a bit difficult to find bindings that are relatively obvious and free.
   I suggest Ctrl+Enter for "Run" and Ctrl+Backspace for "Clear", ⌘+Enter & ⌘+Backspace on Mac.
4. nipafx commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

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   Ctrl+Enter for "Run" is great but Ctrl+Backspace is already taken for "delete word before cursor" (in most text editors and browsers). You could use Ctrl+Shift+Backspace for that.
5. delabassee commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

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   Not a big fan of a 3 keys combo. What about Ctrl+Esc instead?
6. danthe1st commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

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   Ctrl+Esc is at least used by Windows for bringing up the start menu.
7. carimura commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

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   +1 to command+return on Mac for running -- makes sense and is consistent with other behaviour (like sending this comment). I think sending the focus to the code window after run makes sense.

   It's fine If we don't settle on clear for now as cmd+a then delete is a native way to clear the window without having to map anything and it keeps the focus.
8. delabassee commented on Oct 9, 2023

   

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   Note that "clear" clears both the editor and the console.
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10. tofflos commented on Oct 9, 2023

    

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    I'd be super happy with just the Run shortcut and I'm not sure I would use a Clear shortcut often enough to warrant a shortcut.
11. delabassee commented on Oct 10, 2023

    

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    Isn't Esc a good "Clear" (console & editor) shortcut?
12. nipafx commented on Oct 13, 2023

    

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    Ctrl+Shift+Backspace is not uncommon for larger deletes, e.g. in GitHub comment fields it deletes a line.

    Isn't Esc a good "Clear" (console & editor) shortcut?

    Only if a popup asks whether you really want to do that. Otherwise Esc is too commonly used to have such destructive effects.
13. danthe1st commented on Oct 13, 2023

    

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    I am unsure whether an option to clear the console together with the output is really necessary. After all, the console is cleared anyways when re-running the code.

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