Desktop: add alternate codeblock shortcut (Ctrl+')

[tessus]

Some keybord layouts have an issue with the backtick character.
Even setting no dead keys for those layouts may not work.

See also this topic on the forum.

Update: I could only find a way to do that by creating a second invisible menu item. And this won’t trigger on macOS before Electron 6. But as mentioned before, on mcOS it’s not necessary anyway, because there’s a workaround by redefining the shortcut via the OS (System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts ).

Someone has to test this, because I don’t have Windows or Linux with a DE.

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I believe something is wrong with the CI pipeline.

[laurent22]

I think we just need to re-think the keyboard shortcuts as a whole.

+L was taken for the layout, so we had to use +K for links. Then +K was taken so we had to use +backtick for code. And now we're adding more hacks to the codebase because of this.

For now I won't merge it unfortunately, and later we'll see about proper improvements to the shortcuts.

[tessus]

@laurent22 I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. At least partly.

+L was taken for the layout, so we had to use +K for links. Then +K was taken so we had to use +backtick for code.

I don't think so. +K is always used for links, see github, discourse, ... It's practically a standard to use +K for links. (I guess L was taken and people decided to just use the last character of the word instead.)
Even, if we had +K available, would you have really used it for code? I certainly wouldn't have, because too many people would have created code blocks instead of links. Also why +K for code? Like k in kode? I'm just curious.

The +backtick was not a hack, at least not for me. The only hack would be to add an alternate shortcut because of non-English keyboard layouts.

While I do underatand the wish to add customizable shortcuts, I would not change the current keyboard shortcuts. This is like changing the default values to something else.