Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11
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
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