Don't keybind cmd k q in Atom

[corysimmons]

It's very easy to miss k then cmd + q quits editor.

[ArtemGovorov]

Hmm, I'm using the keyboard shortcut all the time and had never hit the issue. Also we've have the exact same keyboard shortcut in Quokka for VS Code (where Cmd + Q also quits editor) for 6 months and no-one yet reported it as an issue.

I'm trying to understand the mechanics of how is it possible to "very easy to miss k". If you accidentally hit Cmd + something close to K instead of K, and then Q - the editor obviously won't exit. The issue only shows up if you hit Cmd, and don't hit K at all, and then hit Q. After trying to perform the action a few times, to me it seems not only not very easy, but highly unlikely to happen.

[corysimmons]

tbh, my keyboard is kinda buggy, every few hits of anything on the right side of keyboard (k, i, etc) just don't register, so if I'm moving quick, I accidentally close editor.

Even if that is my problem, it still seems like something that could happen.

I might be bike-shedding. :|

[ArtemGovorov]

You may re-assign the keyboard shortcut (for example to Cmd + K, E) like this:

• open your Atom keymap.cson file (Atom - Keymap),
• add the following lines to it:

'.platform-darwin atom-text-editor':
  'cmd-k e': 'quokka:make-quokka-from-existing-file'