I looked into adding keyboard shortcuts to PM, but the main problem was that these shortcuts conflicted with browser-specific shortcuts. The only shortcut keys possibly available seem to be the digits 0 to 9.

I haven't investigated if it is possible to add keyboard shortcuts by using JavaScript. If that's possible, then it would be possible to have a set of prepared hotkey-adders depending on the browser and language the user uses.

The one site I'm aware of which uses hotkeys (https://banking.postbank.de) uses Alt-1 etc. as hotkeys, so I assume there is no better cross-browser, cross-language way.

If somebody comes up with sensible mappings for the numbers and items they'd like to have alt keys for, these are very welcome if only as starting points for those who have the JavaScript ability but lack the keyboard usage.

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