This is awesome! Just noticed that Ctrl-/ isn’t toggling comments in Firefox or Chrome (Windows).

I too can’t get a bunch of the keyboard shortcuts to work in chrome (ChromeOS 64).

Thanks for pointing this out! Just checked and we’re mapping the Cmd-/ keyMap, but that doesn’t automatically change to Ctrl-/ on Windows. I’ll work on a fix to this issue to get our Windows compatibility back - sorry about that.

The shortcut Cmd-/ for commenting code lines doesn’t work for me either (Chrome 86 on Mac). Does anyone else still have this issue?

I have a German keyboard and cmd+shift+ß actually works, thanks for mentioning it! This is one of those shortcuts that can save a lot of time, so it would be good if they can be made consistent somehow or if the help menu in Observable would list alternatives for other keyboard layouts depending on…

[image] formsandlines: or if the help menu in Observable would list alternatives for other keyboard layouts depending on browser language I took a quick look at ways to map key codes to keyboard characters, and … oh boy. What I’ve gathered so far for the “/” character: There are two keycod…

On my setup (Ubuntu, laptop French keyboard without Numpad, Firefox), Ctrl+Shift+/ does not work. Alternative setups where it works: use an external USB (French) keyboard with a Numpad, or use Chromium instead of Firefox But I really would love to be able to toggle comments with my default setup…

See Commenting/uncommenting code in non-english keyboard layouts? · Issue #7 · observablehq/feedback · GitHub On a Mac, this is a Firefox/Chrome bug. Not sure about other platforms. This may be helpful: [image] KeyboardEvent tester Type in the box and the keyboard events will be added t…

Thanks. I imagine the discussion will now occur on Commenting/uncommenting code in non-english keyboard layouts? · Issue #7 · observablehq/feedback · GitHub .

Ctrl - / not toggling comments in Firefox

mootari November 5, 2020, 7:27am 5

Yes, but for German keyboard layouts you can produce the required key combination through cmd+shift+ß (credit to @bgchen for figuring that one out).

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