The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys.

In the WordPress Classic Editor, the *  or -  combinations quickly generate an empty bulleted list:

When enabling the PowerToys Quick Accent (formerly [Wayback/Archive] PowerAccent) with their default settings this fails (but it does work in the WordPress Gutenberg editor, Word and some other tools I tested).

The easiest way to work around this is to switch from the default “Activation Keys” setting “Left, Right or Space” to “Left/Right Arrow”.

Hopefully besides the workaround there will also be a full fix.

The related C++ and C# source files:

• [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys/KeyboardListener.cpp at main · microsoft/PowerToys
• [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys/PowerAccent.cs at main · microsoft/PowerToys
• [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys/Languages.cs at main · microsoft/PowerToys

On second inspection, the last file shows that there are indeed replacements for non-letter virtual keys including the :

                LetterKey.VK_0 => new string[] { "₀", "⁰" },
                LetterKey.VK_1 => new string[] { "₁", "¹" },
                LetterKey.VK_2 => new string[] { "₂", "²" },
                LetterKey.VK_3 => new string[] { "₃", "³" },
                LetterKey.VK_4 => new string[] { "₄", "⁴" },
                LetterKey.VK_5 => new string[] { "₅", "⁵" },
                LetterKey.VK_6 => new string[] { "₆", "⁶" },
                LetterKey.VK_7 => new string[] { "₇", "⁷" },
                LetterKey.VK_8 => new string[] { "₈", "⁸" },
                LetterKey.VK_9 => new string[] { "₉", "⁹" },
                ...
                LetterKey.VK_COMMA => new string[] { "¿", "¡", "∙", "₋", "⁻", "–", "≤", "≥", "≠", "≈", "≙", "±", "₊", "⁺" },
                LetterKey.VK_PERIOD => new string[] { "\u0300", "\u0301", "\u0302", "\u0303", "\u0304", "\u0308", "\u030C" },
                LetterKey.VK_MINUS => new string[] { "~", "‐", "‑", "‒", "–", "—", "―", "⁓", "−", "⸺", "⸻" },

Query: [Wayback/Archive] quick accent power toys github – Google Search

Quick Accent tool documentation: [Wayback/Archive] windows-dev-docs/quick-accent.md at docs · MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs

–jeroen