Support for disabling keyboard shortcuts

Feature Discussion
1

Support for keyboard shortcut disabling to prevent accidental key presses.

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2

Yes, please! I need this feature, as the shortcuts (at least for me) are working suboptimal. Quite often, while for example updating a task’s description, some shortcut is wrongly triggered. This leads to an issue being updated in ways I did not want.

3

I installed the Violentmonkey addon, and started using the script below to disable all shortcuts. Only tested it for a couple of hours, but seems to work OK.

(function() {
    'use strict';

    function isEditable(element) {
        if (!element) return false;
        if (element.isContentEditable) return true;
        const tag = element.tagName;
        return tag === 'INPUT' || tag === 'TEXTAREA' || tag === 'SELECT';
    }

    function stopEvent(e) {
        if (!isEditable(document.activeElement)) {
            e.stopImmediatePropagation();
            e.preventDefault();
            return false;
        }
        // Allow normal typing in editable fields
    }

    window.addEventListener('keydown', stopEvent, true);
    window.addEventListener('keyup', stopEvent, true);
    window.addEventListener('keypress', stopEvent, true);
})();
4

For the record, this seems to work pretty well (enabling arrow keys and enter):

(function() {
    'use strict';

    function isEditable(element) {
        if (!element) return false;
        if (element.isContentEditable) return true;
        const tag = element.tagName;
        return tag === 'INPUT' || tag === 'TEXTAREA' || tag === 'SELECT';
    }

    function stopEvent(e) {
        // Always allow ENTER and arrow keys
        const allowedKeys = [
            "Enter", "ArrowUp", "ArrowDown", "ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight"
        ];
        if (allowedKeys.includes(e.key) ||
            [13, 37, 38, 39, 40].includes(e.keyCode)) {
            return;
        }

        if (!isEditable(document.activeElement)) {
            e.stopImmediatePropagation();
            e.preventDefault();
            return false;
        }
        // Allow normal typing in editable fields
    }

    window.addEventListener('keydown', stopEvent, true);
    window.addEventListener('keyup', stopEvent, true);
    window.addEventListener('keypress', stopEvent, true);
})();