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Increase discoverability of Alt-commands on menu buttons #101995

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gjsjohnmurray opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Increase discoverability of Alt-commands on menu buttons #101995

gjsjohnmurray opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Issue Type: Feature Request

When contributing to menus we can use the alt property to specify an alternative command that gets run if the Alt key is pressed.

For example the Split Editor button does this, but the feature is not easily discoverable.

I suggest adding a second line to the button tip (title attribute) that displays the text of the alt-command. For example:

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VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.47.0-insider (d5e9aa0, 2020-07-08T10:52:52.439Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363
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Another mockup example using a markdown document:

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In this case the alternate command has a keybinding.

Or using an alternative to the square brackets:

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Another experiment:
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sbatten commented Jul 9, 2020

I like this idea, adding to backlog to explore.

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#101995 extend tooltip of menu item that defines 'alt' command (#116211)
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* do #101995 extend tooltip of menu item that defines 'alt' command

* key label is 'Option' on macOS

* use platform-specific representation of altKey

* incorporate PR feedback
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#101995 extend tooltip of menu item that defines 'alt' command (#116211)
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* do #101995 extend tooltip of menu item that defines 'alt' command

* key label is 'Option' on macOS

* use platform-specific representation of altKey

* incorporate PR feedback
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This shipped in 1.55

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