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by puddintane 3646 days ago
I have a plugin for IntelliJ's Webstorm/Phpstorm that does just this and it's amazing - whenever I use an item that has a shortcut it pops open that short cut so I can slowly learn them.

If I also use something that doesn't have a shortcut 3 times within the programs running then it asks me if I want to set a shortcut for that action.

I think as time goes on Google will eventually be on this route considering how well it works (at least with the first portion of showing the shortcut command whenever I use it).

However that still wouldn't solve the problem of the users having to learn the commands from scratch first so if they don't know it exists they would never learn the shortcut for it in "OK Google"

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What plugin is that? Sounds like that'd actually come in pretty handy!
It's amazing and I will link the phpStorm/webStorm but as I am looking I am pretty sure it has been ported to all the IntelliJ products and even more.

The only down side is it's not great on looks but honestly it's a popup to tell you a shortcut so it fits well for the purpose

"Key promoter"

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455

Guessing they're referring to Key Promoter.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1003