I downloaded the latest version of the jQuery plugin here. I noticed that it doesn't work if I bind it using keydown and pass in something with a character like 'ctrl+u'. I found that this piece of code seems to be preventing it.
character = event.type === "keypress" && String.fromCharCode( event.which ).toLowerCase(),
namely this segment
event.type === "keypress"
This prevents the character from being true and then later binding the modif plus the character further down.
if ( character ) {
possible[ modif + character ] = true;
possible[ modif + jQuery.hotkeys.shiftNums[ character ] ] = true;
// "$" can be triggered as "Shift+4" or "Shift+$" or just "$"
if ( modif === "shift+" ) {
possible[ jQuery.hotkeys.shiftNums[ character ] ] = true;
}
}
I've seen people use this plugin on their site and they don't have the piece where event.type === "keypress" nor the if (character) piece. Is the hotkeys plugin designed to only accept characters with the keypress event? If so, the documentation doesn't say so.
