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Add Keyboard Shortcut Customization Panel

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Description

Increasing Access
Feature request details

The p5.js web editor currently has built-in keyboard shortcuts for common operations (like Cmd/Ctrl+S to save, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to run), but users cannot customize these shortcuts according to their preferences or workflow. Adding a keyboard shortcut customization panel would enhance accessibility and user experience, especially for users who:

Come from other IDEs with different shortcut conventions
Have physical accessibility needs requiring alternative key combinations
Want to optimize their workflow with personalized shortcuts.

Add a settings panel where users can:

View all available keyboard shortcuts in one place
Customize existing shortcuts to their preference
Reset shortcuts to defaults
Export/import shortcut configurations
Detect and warn about conflicting key bindings

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Begin by locating the web editor's existing keyboard shortcut handling and settings-panel entry point. Define how shortcuts are listed, edited, reset, imported/exported, and checked for conflicts; done means each requested behavior works and conflicting key bindings produce a warning.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
accessibility, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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