Ctrl+Alt+E Yields € symbol in addition to switching to edit mode.

[ccoenen]

If I'm in "both" mode, and press Ctrl+Alt+E to switch to "edit" mode, It will work, but it will also put an € in the current cursor position.

An event.preventDefault() should probably fix this, however, this should only be done, if there's actually a switch happening (meaning: If I'm already in edit-mode, please don't preventDefault, or we won't be able to type € symbols any more).

To reproduce

• (you may need an european keyboard layout, I'm not sure)
• Set any pad to "both" mode where you can see the editor and rendered html at once.
• Make sure, your focus is in the editor, so you can actually type
• press Ctrl+Alt+E

Current Result

• The view is being switched and you also get € at the current cursor position

Desired Result

• when already in edit mode: just type the €
• when not in edit mode: just switch to edit

I'm not sure if other (Ctrl+Alt+V or Ctrl+Alt+B) shortcuts interfere with anything, they do not on my layout. But this could be a general pattern, I believe.

[jackycute]

Hi @ccoenen
Thanks for reporting this.
I think it's better to change this shortcut key.
Because in the most case, user would like to change the mode while editing.
So we need to avoid browser-wide or system-wide alt keys for special symbols.

[ccoenen]

If remapping is the way forward, I'd like to propose C as letter. I have no Idea if this conflicts with anything else, but this way View, Both and Change edit would be right next to each other on many types of keyboards.

[jackycute]

Get it, I will try search any reference list all alt key symbols.
I bet you're on macOS, right?

[ccoenen]

Windows.

[jackycute]

This behavior seems related to the input method, I using Chinese input and the Ctrl+Alt+E combination won't result euro symbol.
What's your input method?

[ccoenen]

I'm on a german keyboard layout, but Ctrl+Alt+E is quite common among european keyboard layouts. There's a few examples of keyboard layouts in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ and a few more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#International_variants

[jackycute]

Based on the wiki links you mentioned above.
It looks like we'll always overlap something on every key.
C key might be a good choice because it will make them all besides.
But it might be a copyright or variant of C symbol in some keyboard layout and I'm not quite sure how they input it.