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Single key shortcuts -- way to disable them

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There's a community of people who need to be able to turn off single key shortcuts. I'm one of them because I use some speech input, and a stray word from you or an office mate when the focus is in the wrong place can cause a lot of havoc that's difficult to undo. You can also get in trouble when typing – hitting a stray "a" can archive something without you realizing it, and this has happened to me as well. A cat going across the keyboard can also cause an awful lot of havoc that's difficult to track down and reverse. If we could simply turn off single key shortcuts, that would go a long way toward solving this problem. Even better if we could remap them. There is an extension that does this but it's aimed at developers and also requires full control of your computer, which removes is as an option for more people. I think you'd make many people happy building in something simpler -- alternate keybindings for single key shortcuts, a setting to turn the single key shortcuts off, or, best yet, the ability to remap them. Thanks for listening, and thanks for a great product! Best, Kim

There's a community of people who need to be able to turn off single key shortcuts. I'm one of them because I use some speech input, and a stray word from you or an office mate when the focus is in the wrong place can cause a lot of havoc that's difficult to undo. You can also get in trouble when typing – hitting a stray "a" can archive something without you realizing it, and this has happened to me as well. A cat going across the keyboard can also cause an awful lot of havoc that's difficult to track down and reverse. If we could simply turn off single key shortcuts, that would go a long way toward solving this problem. Even better if we could remap them. There is an extension that does this but it's aimed at developers and also requires full control of your computer, which removes is as an option for more people. I think you'd make many people happy building in something simpler -- alternate keybindings for single key shortcuts, a setting to turn the single key shortcuts off, or, best yet, the ability to remap them. Thanks for listening, and thanks for a great product! Best, Kim

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You can install a add-on; https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tbkeys-lite/?src=search

After the installation in thunderbird go to the settings of tbkeys and replace the main key bindings with the following: {

   "0": "unset",
   "1": "unset",
   "2": "unset",
   "3": "unset",
   "4": "unset",
   "5": "unset",
   "6": "unset",
   "7": "unset",
   "8": "unset",
   "9": "unset",
   "j": "unset",
   "k": "unset",
   "o": "unset",
   "f": "unset",
   "#": "unset",
   "r": "unset",
   "a": "unset",
   "x": "unset",
   "c": "unset",
   "u": "unset",
   "b": "unset",
   "m": "unset",
   "p": "unset",
   "s": "unset",
   "t": "unset",
   "w": "unset",
   "]": "unset",
   "[": "unset"

}

this will make that all single keys don't have a shortcode. --

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