Fighting with the WP.com post editor

As soon as I start a code-oriented blog I find out that the WordPress post editor doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut for applying <code/> to selected text.. Bah!

I’m looking for a few ways around this:

• An external editor (web-based or otherwise) which supports auto-conversion of markdown into html and uploads to WP.com.
• Chrome extension or userscript to hack in an additional ctrl-shift-c keyboard shortcut for the TinyMCE editor used by WP.

Relevant links:

• http://www.beginwp.com/list-of-keyboard-shortcut-wordpress/ - Seems to suggest a keyboard shortcut for insertion of <code/> does exist, but I couldn’t get it to work in Mac Chrome 24.0.1312.52.
• http://davejamesmiller.com/snippets/wordpress-keyboard-shortcuts-to-indentoutdent-and-format-as-code-in-tinymce
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wysiwyg-inline-code-command/
• http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/33444/how-to-add-tinymce-keyboard-shortcut
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-markdown/

Update 2013-01-21

I found a number of useful projects on which I could build the chrome extension I’d mentioned above, including marked and EpicEditor, but then I landed on Octopress and may have to migrate there. What’s not to love about a blogging framework you have complete control over and can host directly on Github?