Shortcut toggle between editor modes

[OGG]

Hi,

Is there a way to have a keyboard shortcut to toggle editors (markdown and the visual one) instead of going over it with the mouse everytime

[johano]

Toggle editor layout shortcut: Ctrl - L

You can change the shortcut to suit yourself under menu Tools > Options > Keyboard Shortcuts

[ajay]

@OGG I have asked many times, never got a response. May be time to add a feature request on Github.

[ajay]

@johano : ctrl-L switches between different views within the markdown editor
BUT it does not switch to the rech-text module, and that is what OGG is looking for.

[johano]

Ah, I see

[Daeraxa]

It has been asked before:

Shortcut for toggle markdown editor/wysiwyg editor

see Toggle between WYSIWIG/Markdown editor mode with keyboard shortcut: I want to pick up the original feature request for a keyboard shortcut to toggle WYSIWYG editor and markdown editor. In (closed) topic, the discussion drifted from the primary question to CTRL L which toggles layout. I went through Tools → Options → Keyboard Shortcuts but »Toggle Edit-Mode« is missing. Especially for bidirectional operations between Joplin and word processors, it would be very useful to have a fast toggl…

Keyboard shortcut for switching between MD / WYSIWYG

My request is essentially the same as listed here: Toggle between WYSIWIG/Markdown editor mode with keyboard shortcut but that feature is closed, and I don't see any open features that match it. I prefer viewing and editing primarily in wysiwyg - it's basically the upsides of the viewer combined with the ability to edit quickly. However, often I need to drop back into Markdown quickly to muck with something, and there's a handy button for doing that in the upper right, but no keyboard shortcut …

Including one where you were involved and I replied:

WYSIWYG Toggle

[image] It took me a very long time (longer than I'd like to admit) to learn that the button in the upper right corner of the editor was /the/ way to select the WYSIWYG editor. Even searching for variations of "enable wysiwyg editor" in DDG/Google didn't reveal anything other than there IS an editor available. I was looking on the edit menu, the tools menu, inside of the options, clicking in the preview pane and trying to edit, etc. This is very clearly obvious after you've done it the first…

Basically the toggleEditors command should work just fine but it seems there is some kind of "intercept" from TinyMCE which stops the accelerator that you bind to that command from working back the other way - related issue: Desktop: Command "moveToFolder" when bound to an accelerator only works when focus is on codemirror editor · Issue #6063 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

[ajay]

Good morning @Daeraxa
I assume the "asked before" addresses OGG, because I did not ask again.
Cheers

[rafjaf]

I tried to address this here: Toggle-editors by keyboard - #11 by rafjaf

[ajay]

If it is really so easy to implement with a plug-in (I believe you !),
then I really do not understand why it was not implemented as a main app's feature long ago.

[rafjaf]

I think the developers have a great many deal of requests to address and this one was clearly not a priority...

[Daeraxa]

Because it seems to be a bug in how TinyMCE is intercepting the accelerator, it isn't a feature that needs to be added. You can prove that by showing that running the toggleEditors command. There is a bug still open that seems to be related but it doesn't seem like it has been looked at for a while.