markdown shortcuts for bold and italic

[VenomFate-619]

As an EmbeddedChat developer

I need to: use the markdown shortcut to edit the text e.g:- Ctrl + B for bold , Ctrl + I for italic

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] shortcut for bold
• [ ] shortcut for italic

[VenomFate-619]

@sidmohanty11 I like to implement this

[VenomFate-619]

@sidmohanty11

[sidmohanty11]

@VenomFate-619 so sorry for late reply, please go ahead! For shortcuts please make it compatible with all OS. Thanks!

[satti-hari-krishna-reddy]

Hi @VenomFate-619 are you still working on this issue ?

[Yashraj7890]

Hi @sidmohanty11 , is this issue still open? I would love to work on this can it be assigned to me if this issue is still open?

[sidmohanty11]

Go ahead!

[Yashraj7890]

Hi @sidmohanty11 Just needed some clarification.

Here we are aiming at implementing markdown shortcuts for the user such that the user is able to change the font type of the text message he's going to send.

I hope I'm right here.

[sidmohanty11]

@Yashraj7890 Yes yes, for example, if I select any word and do Ctrl+B, it should bold it in markdown syntax.

cc @abhinavkrin

[abhinavkrin]

Hey, @Yashraj7890 I think you should target replicating how it is handled currently by the existing action buttons (bold, italic). To explain, when a user presses CTRL+B the selected text should be wrapped with . For example hello there -> `hello there*`. And if no text is selected add * to the position of the cursor and set the cursor position in the middle of the two characters. This should be the ideal solution. You can share if you have any other approach.

[Yashraj7890]

Noted👍, I'm on it.

[Yashraj7890]

Hey @abhinavkrin

I have made a pull request which successfully implements the feature with the exact behavior you have decribed.

[abhinavkrin]

Thanks, @Yashraj7890 I have merged the changes.