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As the question/answer editor currently stands, ⌘H inserts ## Heading ##.

I often want to use the Hide shortcut while editing, so is there any way I could disable it? Otherwise, would people mind if we changed it for everyone?

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Alternatively, could we change it to, say, shift-cmd-H? – timothymh Jun 30 '12 at 21:24
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+1, yes please. Same with cmd+l; I would love to allow that to focus the URL bar and use cmd+k for links (which is standard anyway). – Nathan Greenstein♦ Jun 30 '12 at 21:57
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Why do browsers let web pages trap browser keyboard commands? That seems like a security hole. – Daniel Lawson♦ Jul 1 '12 at 5:46
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Alternatively, you could just press TAB, ⌘+H. That would get you out of the textarea, thus allowing for ⌘+H to hide your browser. Also, why isn'tt <kbd> allowed in comments? – kba Jul 1 '12 at 13:14
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This isn't specific to Ask Different and there's already several requests like this on Meta Stack Overflow. – Lauri Ranta Jul 1 '12 at 16:11
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It isn't specific to Ask Different, but it does affect users of Apple products differently than users of other computers, so it might find more of them here (then again, it might not) – Daniel Lawson♦ Jul 1 '12 at 18:08
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It certainly seems that browsers ought to give users control over who gets first dibs on each relevant key combo: sites, or the browser... – SamB Jul 2 '12 at 14:46
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PLEASE!!!!! I hate having to minimize Chrome in the middle of writing a post rather than hiding it. Alternatively, could we get a checkbox placed on the page when posting that says something like: "Turn keyboard shortcuts on" or something like that? – daviesgeek Jul 5 '12 at 6:07
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Just realized I forgot to include another one that annoys me: ctrl + k adds an inline code block instead of cutting the rest of the current paragraph. – Nathan Greenstein♦ Jul 19 '12 at 15:31

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