Cmd-L to open Link Dialog

[kushal]

It looks like the default CKEditor has a shortcut for adding a link, but it appears to not be in Alloy, and I can't quite figure out how to add it. Any tips or insights? Thanks!

[ipeychev]

Hey @kushal,

We currently don't support this. In general, AlloyEditor is able to work with the keyboard (and it is also screen reader friendly) - by pressing Alt+F10 the toolbar will be focused and then you will be able to navigate using they arrows. Going back and forth to the next Toolbar is done using Tab.
However, directly invoking specific commands is not supported and I think this will a good feature.

[jbalsas]

Hey @kushal, as @ipeychev pointed out, some keystrokes aren't currently available in AlloyEditor because they're added by some CKEditor plugins we're not using. I'm working on a fix for this, that will allow creating keystrokes for the buttons.

Keep in mind, though, that AlloyEditor works in a different way, so the keystrokes will only be available as long as the button holding the required functionality is available in a toolbar. This means you won't be able to create a link just by pressing Cmd + L if you haven't selected any text. For that, however, we enable ae_autolink by default which creates links automatically as you type.

[kushal]

This works great, thanks!

Out of curiosity, is there even a hacky way to make cmd-L work when no text
is selected?

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[jbalsas]

Hey @kushal, as @ipeychev would say, "we are developers, we can do anything" 😉

I think you could:

• Have cmd-L trigger a command that would create a CKEditor bookmark
• Create an additional selection with the linkEdit button that would resolve true for the created bookmarks

If everything plays out and a selectionChange event is triggered when creating the bookmark, that should prompt the special toolbar with the edit button. You'd need to take care of registering/unregistering the commands so they don't clash, but that's a way I can see it working.

@ipeychev, what do you think? Would you like to have this behaviour out of the box?

[ipeychev]

I vote with +1, definitely!

[jbalsas]

Will work on that, then 😉

[ipeychev]

That proves you are a real developer :)

[jbalsas]

Hey @kushal, we just implemented this in #422. Should be in for the next release 😉

[kushal]

Very cool!

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