Keyboard Shortcut to reply

[hardeepasrani]

It'll be great to have a quick shortcode to jump straight to the textarea to reply, when you've read the entire convo or when the message is small so you just wanna move to replying without touching your mouse.

var bbPressReply = document.getElementById( 'bbp_reply_content' );

jQuery( document ).on( 'keydown', function ( e ) {
	if ( e.keyCode === 82 ) {
		if ( document.activeElement.nodeName !== 'INPUT' ) { 
			bbPressReply.focus();     
		}
	}
});

I wrote the above JavaScript, not sure if it's the best practice, but seems like a good start. Wanted to submit a patch but can't find any JS files where I could add it in the Fourm's meta.

Quick preview: When you press the key r it takes you straight to the textarea.

Any thoughts?

[mindmantra]

We discussed this ticket in yesterday's design ticket triage. As in its current state there is no UI for which a feedback can be given.

Though following are some UX concerns.

How user would be made aware of such shortcut is also needs to be considered. May be a message can be added somewhere to highlight the new shortcut?

Another concern would be about accidental key-press by an uninformed user. It may actually degrade UX. We can do an opt-in when said key is pressed first time. May be show a toast message like "Press 'r' again to enable it as shortcut for quick reply."