I think "Clear formatting" is important enough to justify a keyboard shortcut. For example, there are cases where the formatting can unintentionally continue longer than you want, such as when you add a link.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53682
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56453
Shortcuts used in other programs are:
Ctrl Spacebar - Used by Word for "Remove paragraph or character formatting."/"Remove manual character formatting" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938).
Ctrl \ - Used by Google Docs for "Clear formatting" (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/179738?hl=en)
Ctrl M - Used by LibreOffice for "Clear direct formatting" (https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/General_Shortcut_Keys_in)
I can see wanting to use Ctrl Spacebar for a general whitespace inserter menu (nbsp/tab/etc.), so how about we go with Ctrl \?
Ctrl M might be a little friendlier. I know from experience people confuse backslash and forward slash. But I don't feel strongly about it.
Change 76666 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Add keyboard shortcut for 'clear' button
Except there is no \ key on keyboards like the French one, so the shortcut is reported as not working (also, provoking weird behaviour I'll report elsewhere), since they should type CTRL Alt Gr 8. Can we do something about this? Thanks.
(In reply to comment #7)
Except there is no \ key on keyboards like the French one, so the shortcut is
reported as not working (also, provoking weird behaviour I'll report
elsewhere), since they should type CTRL Alt Gr 8. Can we do something
about this? Thanks.
Weird behaviour reported on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53682
Re-closing; have made bug 56453 for the suggestion to add a new one for other keyboards.