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I would like to make c a shortcut for inserting a comment and h a shortcut for highlighting. Other keyboard shortcuts could do, e.g., if modifier keys are required. Pressing one of these keys would be equivalent to pressing the annotation icons in the toolbar:

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... so that clicking/selecting using the mouse afterward would perform the desired action. This would immensely improve my reading flow! Is there a way to do this?

An added bonus would be a way to map CTRL + Z to deleting the last annotation.

NIMISHAN
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Jonas Lindeløv
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The feature was added just one month ago (Aug 10, 2018) to evince.

I guess it will be available in the next evince version 3.31. The shortcuts in the addition are S to add a text annotation and Ctrl+H to add highlight annotations.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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adabru
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  • I was looking for a mouse-free workflow to add annotations and came across this post. In caret mode (ctrl+f7) I can highlight w/ shift+arrow and then highlight w/ ctrl+h. but from there, the only way to add text to the highlight I found is by double clicking on it. is there a way to get the annotation popup for a highlight w/ keyboard only? – user313032 Aug 10 '25 at 15:05