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I am new to Joplin as of this morning.
I am trying Joplin 1.0.175 on Windows.

I attempt to access the Edit menu by pressing Alt + E, and instead of opening the menu, I see this pop up in the editor, below the caret:
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It looks like some sort of validator, but I can’t find any reference to it here in the forums or in the Github repo.

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Well, I think I found the answer in the Ace Editor source code.
When using the editor for writing code, this would show syntax errors.

The message is defined here: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/9b5b63d1dc7c1b81b58d30c87d14b5905d030ca5/lib/ace/ext/error_marker.js#L122

And the key bindings are set here: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/c8b002766964dd0f61c402e3498d6c111fa5afea/lib/ace/commands/default_commands.js#L56-L75

Maybe in a couple of weeks I can try to get Joplin building locally and see if I can configure the editor to exclude that command and/or keybinding. But… I am not a JS dev and if anyone else thinks that is an easy fix in the meantime, it would not be stepping on my toes for someone else to fix this.

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The code is in ElectronClient/app/gui/NoteText.jsx, but we only have overrides for ctrl and cmd, not for alt.

@laurent have you seen this behavior on Windows? It’s strange that this hasn’t been reported before.

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I’ve never seen that either

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I've seen it, but didn't bother doing anything about it, since it didn't mess with my notes. Been there for a long time though, it's not new. :smiley: