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Keyboard shortcut for creating headings and lists in HTML messages

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I'm running thunderbird 128.3.0 ESR.

Are there keyboard shortcuts for creating headings and lists in HTML messages? You can walk through the menus

i.e. to create an h1 you can do:

1. select text with the keyboard; 2. press "alt+o, p, 1");

Would be nice to be able to:

1. select text with keyboard; 2. press control+alt+1 for h1, control+alt+2 for h2, etc.

Similarly for lists:

1. select text with the keyboard; 2. press "alt+control+l"; 3. press enter to get next item; 4. end with two presses of enter


Perhaps I missed this in the shortcuts help article?

Thanx for any info.

I'm running thunderbird 128.3.0 ESR. Are there keyboard shortcuts for creating headings and lists in HTML messages? You can walk through the menus i.e. to create an h1 you can do: 1. select text with the keyboard; 2. press "alt+o, p, 1"); Would be nice to be able to: 1. select text with keyboard; 2. press control+alt+1 for h1, control+alt+2 for h2, etc. Similarly for lists: 1. select text with the keyboard; 2. press "alt+control+l"; 3. press enter to get next item; 4. end with two presses of enter Perhaps I missed this in the shortcuts help article? Thanx for any info.

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I wasn't able to do this with the tbkeys-lite add-on, but it seems to be easy to select from the Formatting Bar (see picture), which also has icons for bulleted and numbered lists.

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Thanx for your reply.

I use a screen reader and thus cannot use a mouse. Was hoping someone knew of a keyboard-only way of doing this!

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You can post in the Issues section in case someone knows how:

https://github.com/wshanks/tbkeys/issues

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