Edit hotkey shortcut

[betelgeur13]

NetBox version

v4.4.2

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Pressing the e key goes to edit mode from any object page (Device, Interface, IP adress ...) except already in an input element.

This is hugely inspired by #20308.

Use case

On VSCode or Gitlab, there is a huge presence of keyboard shortcuts.
With alt + arrow as well as the slash feature, it helps navigate more with the keyboard only.
Thank you :)

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

[jnovinger]

Thanks for the feature request. I like the idea of expanding NetBox's keyboard shortcuts. The / shortcut from #20308 has been useful, and e for edit makes sense as a natural next step.

That said, adding shortcuts ad-hoc and one at a time isn't tenable. We need to think through how keyboard shortcuts should work as a system: what shortcuts make sense for different contexts (list views, detail pages, forms), how users discover them, and how we maintain them going forward.

I'm going to create a discussion to explore this properly. We can look at what other web apps do well here, what shortcuts would be most valuable, and how to implement this in a maintainable way. Once we have a clearer picture, we can implement shortcuts like this one as part of that larger effort.