The Ability to change the highlighter keyboard shortcut to a different color

[reformedhuck 0]

Hello, it would be a nice to have an option to change one's default highlight color. The need is immediate when I'm using the keyboard shortcut to highlight text, and are wanting it to be a different color than the default Yellow. I hope this makes sense. Thanks!

[Mike P 3,058]

1 hour ago, reformedhuck said:

The need is immediate when I'm using the keyboard shortcut to highlight text,

For the record, you can do it with the keyboard, but it is a bit painful. On Windows:

• alt+ctrl+F10 to put the focus onto the formatting bar
• right arrow several times to the highlight entry
• Enter to open the colour picker
• Left and right arrows to select the colour and then enter again

Unfortunately the number of right arrow presses depends on whether the undo and redo buttons are available or grayed out. This makes it difficult to automate. If you were happy to remove the ability to undo, you could refresh first (ctrl+R) which grays out both keys and then means a standard 10 right arrow presses.