Slash command shortcuts for different heading levels

[cbirdsong]

What problem does this address?

You can easily add a heading block by typing /he and using the autocomplete box, like so:

However, when I'm writing something and am adding a heading I usually know what heading level it should be, and if it's not an H2, I'll need to change the heading level after adding the block. To do that, I have to either:

• take my hands off the keyboard and use the mouse to pick in the toolbar
• do a lot of arrow key work on the keyboard

Both routes are pretty involved and make it easy to lose my train of thought.

What is your proposed solution?

Add slash command shortcuts for /h3, /h4, etc that add a heading block with that heading level preselected.

[ndiego]

I know this is not what you are looking for, and a slash command would be great, but you can do this with markdown. For example, ### and then a space will create an h3.

[cbirdsong]

That trick definitely gets the job done for me, but it's not very discoverable or explainable to someone who isn't familiar with markdown.

[talldan]

Typing /h4 and enter does already work, it's just the autocompleter doesn't show any suggestions as there are no blocks called that.

I think there might be other issues already open for making it show something, possibly using block variations. I think the tricky part is that it wouldn't be great to flood the autocompleter with only heading block suggestions.

[cbirdsong]

See, I didn't even think to try that because the "Heading" autocomplete option disappears once you add a number to /h. I think the shortcut would be a bit more discoverable if that stayed visible once you've typed /h#, even if they label stayed as just "heading".

(It would obviously be clearer if it said "Heading 3" or whatever, but I can see how that introduces a lot of potential complications)