Snips keyboard shortcut creates conflict - Remapping the Snips shortcut.

[raamdev]

Checklist

• Using latest version on the App Store
• Read the docs
• Searched for existing GitHub issues

Configuration

Blink v17.1.0.854, iOS 17.1.1

Describe the bug

The Snips feature introduced in v17.0.0 uses the Command + Shift + < key combination, which prevents using that key combination in, for example, Emacs (I use Emacs via Blink over SSH + Mosh and that key combo became unusable after I updated to v17). There doesn't appear to be any way to override the Snips shortcut, or to disable the Snips feature to free up that key combination.

[carloscabanero]

Hi! In Config > Keyboard > Blink Shortcuts there is the option to remap Show Snips to something else. Have you tried that?

[raamdev]

Hi @carloscabanero! I had not seen that shortcut until you pointed it out (thanks!), however I just tried remapping and also deleting the shortcut altogether, but Command + Shift + < now does nothing at all, as if the key combination is not making it through to Emacs. Here are a few things that I just tried after deleting the Blink 'Show Snippets' shortcut:

• Tried completely restarting my iPad
• Tried rebooting my remote linux machine that I SSH into
• Tried connecting to my remote machine via Blink SSH instead of via Blink Mosh

In all cases, the Command + Shift + < shortcut now does nothing at all.

I also use Command + Shift + > in Emacs and that shortcut works fine, but Command + Shift + < stopped working once the Snippets feature was introduced.

I'll also note that while the screenshot that you shared shows Command + Shift + ,, the shortcut is actually using < since the Shift key is being pressed.

[carloscabanero]

Hmmmm... cannot reproduce from my side. Can you do a showkey -a and tell me what Cmd-Shift-< is sending when you have that disabled? I get 2c and 2e which is what the sequence is supposed to be.

[raamdev]

I get no output at all when I use showkey -a and press Command + Shift + <.

I should note that I'm using a hardware keyboard (the Apple iPad Pro Keyboard). I tried disconnecting the iPad from the keyboard and reconnecting it, but that made no difference.

[carloscabanero]

That is weird. Are you maybe using a different layout? I' using an external keyboard as well, and tried with iPad keyboard and my usual mechanical.

We can reset the keyboard information. Can you do a mv .blink/kb.json .blink/kb.json.bk. Then fully restart Blink. Try to set Show Snippets to something else, then test showkey -a again.

And one last thing if that fails. Please go to https://jsfiddle.net/carloscabanero/q8rs1ftg/, do the keys combination there in Safari, press copy markdown button and paste here results that you have.

[raamdev]

Resetting the keyboard information seems to have done the trick! Thanks so much for helping me figure this out.

[carloscabanero]

No worries, glad I could help. Let me move this as a Discussion so others may benefit from it, as it was more of a support issue.