ccing Ahmed that worked on input and can triage.

Thank you for the suggestions!

>  - Go to beginning / end of line without selecting text
   We already support this: Search+Left => Home, Search+Right => End.  

>  - Ability to remap the assistant key
   We don't support this, and I believe there are no plans to do so. +ovanieva@

>  - Ability to type an em-dash (option-dash on a MacBook Pro)
>  - Better ability to type accents from the US keyboard without switching to US-INTL. (Like "option-e e" types "é" on a MacBook Pro)
   I don't know what these are, sorry. +kpschoedel@ and +shuchen@ who probably know.

For accents, your best bet is probably the “US Extended” layout, which has the dead keys in the AltGraph layer (right Alt ≈ Mac Option). The layout is nothing like Mac US, though, e.g. [AltGraph+' e] for [é].

None of the current English QWERTY layouts have emdash.

XKB does include a Mac-like layout, but Chrome OS does not expose it. Doing so would be technically straightforward (similar to https://codereview.chromium.org/1411603005).

>>  - Go to beginning / end of line without selecting text
>   We already support this: Search+Left => Home, Search+Right => End.  

Thanks. This shortcut doesn't seem to be listed in the "View keyboard shortcuts" window. It belongs in the "Text Editing" section next to "Select text to the beginning / end of the line". Could it please be added there?


>>  - Ability to remap the assistant key
>   We don't support this, and I believe there are no plans to do so. +ovanieva@

Understood that there may be reasons to not support it, but I'm putting in a vote for enabling remapping of it. There is no technical reason not to.


> For accents, your best bet is probably the “US Extended” layout, which has
> the dead keys in the AltGraph layer (right Alt ≈ Mac Option). The layout is
> nothing like Mac US, though, e.g. [AltGraph+' e] for [é].

Thanks! Didn't know about that. The US Extended keyboard layout looks like it'll work well. Looks like just AltGraph+e also works to produce é.


> None of the current English QWERTY layouts have emdash.

Would it be possible to add that to the US keyboard layout? I use it all the time and would prefer to not start using "--" as a replacement.

One more request: could you please allow remapping of shortcuts? In particular I would like to be able to customize the "next tab" and "previous tab" shortcuts. On macOS I used Command-Option-Left and Right. I'm getting wrist strain after switching to ChromeOS's Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab shortcuts and would like to be able to remap them to something else. Thanks.

>>>  - Go to beginning / end of line without selecting text
>>   We already support this: Search+Left => Home, Search+Right => End.  

> Thanks. This shortcut doesn't seem to be listed in the "View keyboard shortcuts" window. It belongs in the "Text Editing" section next to "Select text to the beginning / end of the line". Could it please be added there?

+wutao@

Upgrading to P2 RFE because the inability to customize the system's shortcuts is causing me wrist strain.

#4 — I doubt changing an existing layout would fly, as it would annoy anyone used to the current mapping. I think adding a “US International (Mac)” option would be a good idea, as we already have a “US International (PC)” variant that emulates Windows, and that took substantially more work than a Mac-like variant would, given that the XKB support is already present. Perhaps file a separate issue for that?

Thanks - filed  Issue 898231  regarding the Mac International keyboard layout.

The ability to customize the keys for the system's shortcuts is a more pressing matter. I'd really like to be able to remap shortcuts like "previous tab" and "next tab" to avoid wrist strain. Should I file a separate request for enhancement about that?

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/749181de7b7483fe9e3a9f124a68e341d8c2d80a

commit 749181de7b7483fe9e3a9f124a68e341d8c2d80a
Author: wutao <wutao@chromium.org>
Date: Wed Oct 24 21:10:16 2018

ksv: Add two shortcuts

This patch adds two shortcuts using `search' to go to beginning/end of
document.

Bug: 896907
Test: manual.
Change-Id: I517f32b89e4e0ea5ad31d54e18f44d591e34531b
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1296548
Reviewed-by: Ahmed Fakhry <afakhry@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Tao Wu <wutao@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#602452}
[modify] https://crrev.com/749181de7b7483fe9e3a9f124a68e341d8c2d80a/ash/components/shortcut_viewer/keyboard_shortcut_viewer_metadata.cc

cl in #11 added missing shortcuts in #6.

Thanks, but had two comments on https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1296548 - it looked like they were supposed to say "beginning/end of line" rather than "beginning/end of document".

Have split off the request for enhancement about being able to remap keyboard shortcuts like "Next tab" and "Previous tab" into Issue 899333.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/b76d671ac867eb60e15b2e4797877b67f9e44b90

commit b76d671ac867eb60e15b2e4797877b67f9e44b90
Author: wutao <wutao@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Oct 30 20:55:02 2018

ksv: fix shortcut description

This cl fixes two descriptions of shortcuts.

Bug: 896907
Test: manual.
Change-Id: I035a4cab3e8315437111f0f72bcdf3bf681e2876
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1298475
Reviewed-by: Lei Zhang <thestig@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ahmed Fakhry <afakhry@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Tao Wu <wutao@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#604009}
[modify] https://crrev.com/b76d671ac867eb60e15b2e4797877b67f9e44b90/ash/components/shortcut_viewer/keyboard_shortcut_viewer_metadata.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/b76d671ac867eb60e15b2e4797877b67f9e44b90/ash/components/shortcut_viewer_strings.grdp
[modify] https://crrev.com/b76d671ac867eb60e15b2e4797877b67f9e44b90/tools/gritsettings/resource_ids

One way to do this would be to allow chrome.input.ime extensions to handle keystrokes which don't occur in a text input field.

As a longtime Mac user who switched exclusively to Chrome OS while a Googler, I greatly miss the built-in emacs-style shortcuts, particularly ctrl+a and ctrl+e to go to the beginning and end of a line. Search+Left and Search+Right are great to know about, but can't be done with one hand. The ability to customize this would be nice