dlemas / markdown-keyboard-shortcuts

Text formatting keyboard shortcuts for Markdown via Autohotkey.

Markdown Keyboard Shortcuts.

Description.

This is an essential handful of text-formatting keyboard shortcuts for Markdown, working thanks to AutoHotkey ^(the ultimate automation scripting language for Windows)^ .

Shortcuts:

It covers:

• CTRL+B - bold the font,
• CTRL+I - italicize,
• CTRL+1 - bold & italicize,
• CTRL+U - underline (through a CSS hack - see the explanation below),
• CTRL+SHIFT+= - insert ^a superscript^,
• CTRL+K - insert a reference-style hyperlink into a selected text;

Text underlining via a CSS hack.

Since Markdown doesn't support text underlining, I've decided to use the following CSS hack described by its author here - You need to add this CSS code to Your CSS spreadsheet:

strong>em,
em>strong,
b>i,
i>b
{
	font-style:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

The appealing thing here is that the Markdown-style **_underlined text_** looks better and more intuitive than classic HTML-powered <u>underlined text</u>. Unfortunately things get complicated if You'd like the text to be bold or italicized in the same time :( . Maybe I'll write some jQuery workaround for this.

How Markdown improved My workflow?

In case You would be interested to learn about My personal impressions on Markdown, and especially how it influenced My workflow - I encourage You to read this article, within which I also describe other things which significantly improved My work as a feature-writer or a programmer.

Contact.

In case You'd have any questions or thoughts on how it could be improved, You are welcome to reach Me at [email protected] .

History.

• ver. 0.1 - June 11, 2019;