Add keystroke markdown

[Mirdarthos]

Current behavior

Currently, when adding a keystroke to a note, for example Up I have to use the HTML <kbd></kbd> tags.

Expected behavior

While this works fine, it would be much quicker to have a Markdown tag for it. I suggest double pipes. For example:

||Up||

Additionally

Additionally, it would also be awesome if the keystrokes are then displayed a bit differently thann the current text. Say, 110% size, in bold. Or something like that.

Environment

• Boost Note.next version: 0.22.3
• OS version and name: Manjaro Linux 21.2.4, but I don't think it makes a difference for this.

[Komediruzecki]

Hi,

I don't think we would get much by replacing the standard kbd tag with those pipes.

However, for styling, you can easily do it through markdown preview CSS. You can change the current one or add completely your own style:

With these changes:

[Mirdarthos]

The pipes would just have made the note typing much easier. It is a lot easier, and thus quicker, to type || Up || then it is to type <kbd>Up</kbd>, that's all.

Regarding the styling, thank you, I've just implemented it.

[Komediruzecki]

This would make it uncustom markdown, thus not so portable, do you have any examples of systems using this approach?

[Mirdarthos]

Unfortunately not. And I understand the portability, so it's OK. Just tried to give feedback and suggest a useful feature. I understand if it can't.

Another option, that I just though of, and I'd write a plugin to do this for myself if possible, is to "parse" the markdown when saving it and look for the || <string> || pattern, replacing it with <kbd> <string> </kbd>. Or even as you type, or so on.