Help talk:Keyboard shortcuts

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Help function

It would (IMO) be helpful to have a shortcut for a "help function" by assigning "view the page Keyboard shortcuts" to a key such as ?. --Lambiam 13:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 June 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky (talk) 07:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts → Help:Keyboard shortcuts – Seems more like help for using wikipedia than tips for building wikipedia Aaron Liu (talk) 20:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rename per nom. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:52, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom. Daask (talk) 01:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 September 2024

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Request: Please change column value (data item) in table from "hold Alt + access key[3]" to "hold Alt + Shift + access key[3]".

Location: ... inside the first table ("Using access keys") on the webpage, at the intersection of the "Instructions" column and the "Internet Explorer MS Edge" row.

This highlights the column value in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts#:~:text=Windows-,hold,-Alt%2Baccess%20key%5B Tophernil (talk) 00:10, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Are you sure? I heard MS Edge recently switched to Chromium. Should I add Edge Chromium to the top? ⸺(Random)staplers 19:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Randomstaplers, I'm absolutely certain the Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based web browser, 2020) shortcut format should be "Hold Alt + ⇧Shift + access key". I know this since I use Edge as my browser. :)

Based on the current unedited version of the shortcut format for MS Edge, should a user only press and hold Alt f, the Microsoft Edge "Settings and more menu" will pop open. However, this is not what the shortcut format in the Wiki table suggests will happen: open/jump to the Wiki search box. To jump to the Wiki search box, a user must press and hold Alt ⇧Shift f (not Alt f), or else the MS Edge settings menu will pop up.

The same concept applies to the other Wiki shortcut keys. For example, to edit a Wiki page, a user must press and hold Alt ⇧Shift e (not Alt e, which also opens up MS Edge settings menu. lol.).

In conclusion, the keyboard shortcut format for carrying out Wikipedia tasks (in Microsoft Edge web browser) should be changed from "Hold Alt + access key" to "Hold Alt + ⇧Shift + access key". The ⇧Shift key is necessary since it's specific to Wikipedia. Without it, the shortcut format applies to MS Edge-specific tasks, like opening up the Microsoft Edge settings menu.

Original Sources:

Alt f (or Alt e):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/keyboard-shortcuts-in-microsoft-edge-50d3edab-30d9-c7e4-21ce-37fe2713cfad#:~:text=Alt%20%2B%20F,and%20more%20%20menu

Chromium-based in 2020:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-edge/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-based-on-chromium-0f4a3dd7-55df-60f5-739f-00010dba52cf Tophernil (talk) 20:52, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just call it MS Edge or Microsoft Edge. Adding Chromium-based to the name is not needed. Tophernil (talk) 20:55, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You remember the old Microsoft Edge for Windows 10, right?⸺(Random)staplers 20:57, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll clarify this - EdgeHTML⸺(Random)staplers 20:58, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For context, I'm using Microsoft Edge on a Windows 11 operating system. Tophernil (talk) 21:02, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's already changed. EdgeHTML is linked. ⸺(Random)staplers 21:05, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: Clearing queue. ⸺(Random)staplers 18:25, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done ⸺(Random)staplers 20:56, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. Thank you @Randomstaplers. Tophernil (talk) 20:56, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]