Search hotkey
petermaxx opened this issue · comments
Can I configure and/or is there already a hotkey to bring up search from within Sidewise?
Currently there is no hotkey to focus the sidebar. That feature will probably wait until Chrome team gives us a proper API for adding global hotkeys to Chrome (shouldn't be long now).
That said, you currently have three options:
- Focus the sidebar with mouse click or alt-tab, then just start typing your search; the search box should automatically receive focus when you type the first character.
- Focus the sidebar with mouse click or alt-tab, then type Ctrl+F and begin typing your search.
- Focus Chrome's address bar with e.g. Alt+D then type "sw sometext". You'll see all the tabs Sidewise knows about containing "sometext" appear in the address bar dropdown; use the down arrow key to select the one you want and hit enter to switch to that tab.
Note that for approaches 1 and 2, there are currently no up/down hotkeys for navigating the search results list; you just have to click the one you want. Those hotkeys will probably be implemented soon after the first public release, since they would not have to be global hotkeys like the "focus sidebar" hotkey would.
Lastly, when searching from the sidebar's search box, you can hit Esc at any time to clear the search out.
Once the Chrome team implements a global hotkey API, I'll probably make Alt+S focus the sidebar + focus the search box within the sidebar.
At the bottom of the extensions page, there's a (new?) 'Configure commands' link. Just open that up, make Alt-S your shortcut (that's the one I picked before I even came here to look for more sidewise shortcuts 😃 ).
Edit: I also just stumbled across this: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/commands.html whilst stumbling around on stackoverflow.