Accessibility: Lacking Keyboard Shortcuts

[GfEW]

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Please complete the following information:

Device: diverse
Android Version: 9 to 11
Orgzly Revived Version: 1.8.28
Sync repository type: any

The Problem

Although android is commonly considered touch centric, there are various reasons (including accessibility issues) people use external keyboards with their android devices, be it occasionally or even primarily.

Alas, Orgzly Revived fails to provide quick, reliable keyboard access (as opposed to tabbing around) to most basic, frequently needed actions.

To Reproduce

(an arbitrary example)

1. Connect an external keyboard to your android device, and open Orgzly Revived there.
2. Enter any note view by keyboard.
3. Try to start editing the note body, by keyboard.
4. Try to save changes and leave edit mode, by keyboard.

What does happen?

You likely don't even get to 4. because Orgzly won't let you enter edit mode by keyboard in 3.

What should happen?

You should be able to edit the note, confirm your changes and close edit mode again, by keyboard. This likewise applies to many other actions, see my reply below.

[GfEW]

Some (hopefully) sensible shortcuts for actions that are currently inaccessible by keyboard:

These suggestions are obviously open to discussion. So far, they don't try to emulate emacs defaults, as we`re in CUA world anyway.

1. In any lists of items

(i. e. notebooks, notes, search results, ...):

• move through long lists more quickly than single-step Up/Down: Home/PgUp/PgDown/End
• select/deselect item(s):
  • one by one: Shift+Up/Shift+Down
  • select all: Ctrl+A
• with selection
  • cut/copy/paste: Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V (if applicable)
  • delete: Del (with confirmation)
• open and focus the search widget: Ctrl+F (keeping the search term in place, if any)
• open and focus the navigation drawer: Ctrl+O (closing it by Back/Meta-Backspace works already)
• sync: Ctrl+S or Ctrl+R (F5 would also fit well but isn't easily availably on all keyboards)

2. In specific lists

2.1. In the list of notebooks:

• create new notebook: Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+N

2.2. In a list of notes, i. e. a specific notebook:

• create new note: Ctrl+N or +
• with selected note(s)
  • set state: i
  • set priority: p
  • set schedule: s
  • move selected note(s): Alt+Up/Alt+Down/Alt+Left/Alt+Right
• fold/unfold note: Left/Right (together with Up/Down, this allows for very quick navigation across notes, akin to e. g. lynx mode in mc)

2.3. In a specific note, view mode:

• edit selected field: Enter (as if the field was tapped)

2.4. In a specific note, edit mode:

• with selected text
  • style it bold/code/italic/underlined: Ctrl+B/Ctrl+E/Ctrl+I/Ctrl+U
• confirm changes, leave note: Ctrl+Enter (as if the confirmation checkmark was tapped)