Add keyboard shortcut to open links in currently selected message

[davidtwco]

When browsing Zulip using the keyboard, users need to reach for their mouse to open links. If there were a shortcut to select between links in a message and before pressing enter to open the link, then this would let users continue to use Zulip using their keyboard.

[timabbott]

Yeah, that'd be good to support, thanks for the suggestion!

I suppose the standard UI for this would be for tab to iterate through the links in the currently selected message, though I think managing tabindex for that might be too annoying to make that a good experience. So I think I agree that an explicit keyboard shortcut for this would be a good idea (possibly iterating through links in the current message to highlight).

[jaichhabra]

Hey is it still available?
if yes , I would love to start working on it @davidtwco @timabbott

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[timabbott]

Yeah, you're welcome to work on this. It may take a while to be ready to integrate just because I'm not sure what key we should use (etc.) and those decisions may take time, but it's worth prototyping.