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Keyboard shortcuts for switching between tools

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Hello, thank you for this app,

I (and a lot of users I am sure) would like to have shortcuts to switch between the tools, for example e to choose the eraser, a for for arrow, etc… that will save time searching in the toolbar for the keyboard-fan users.

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  • State:open
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Reactions:4
  • Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

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ade-sedecommented, Jan 31, 2022

+100. Having keyboard shortcuts for tool would make ascii super awesome, and productive.

Ideally, the shortcuts would be kept to the left hand keyboard (touch typing), so that users can use the right hand to manipulate the mouse, and left hand to switch tool.

Coincidentally, excalidraw seems to do exactly just this. Finding it super effective, and allows us to draw much quicker. Here are the shortcuts, for reference.

https://imgur.com/a/GOTlMjN

Shortcuts have been implemented and deployed. The in-app documentation has been updated as well 🎉. View shortcuts by pressing alt. Each functionality is bound to alt-1, alt-2, etc…

Shortcuts with my left hand and drawing on a graphic tablet is exactly how I work with all the whiteboard apps I use 😉.

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theicfirecommented, Feb 1, 2022

The alt codes bug is fixed in https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow/pull/224

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