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[lordlycastle]

A hot key that can show all the applications shortcuts, so it makes it easier to remember them. E.g. you press that and it shows this window.

It should be able to find all the application's shortcuts which is in focus and list them.

ergonis KeyCue is a product on a Mac that does this

[lordlycastle]

Again I shouldn’t have to say it but... it should be searchable. And useable with mouse.

[crutkas]

neat idea, so many questions ... some stuff comes from menu bars, context menus, things that are contextual for what you're doing.

I'm just thinking about how office's ribbon menu changes based on context.

I think we'd be able to scan apps but i doubt we'd be perfect. Would love to nerd out with Ergonis to see how they accomplish this on MacOS

[lordlycastle]

Let’s get it to show static shortcuts first then think about anything contextual.

[eugenesvk]

neat idea, so many questions ... some stuff comes from menu bars, context menus, things that are contextual for what you're doing.

I'm just thinking about how office's ribbon menu changes based on context.

I think we'd be able to scan apps but i doubt we'd be perfect. Would love to nerd out with Ergonis to see how they accomplish this on MacOS

It would be just awesome if this turned into anything like KeyCue, which is just a life saver on a macOS computer that I've always wished were available on a Windows one!!!
By the way, KeyCue also allows you to customize the list, e.g. you can hide Ctrl+S shortcut as you'll never need a reminder that it's "Save" so there is not need for it to clutter your list or you can manually add shortcuts for applications that are not recognized by KeyCue or if you've remapped them via a different app (hopefully you'd be able to automatically import the remappings from PowerToys Keyboard Manager, but meanwhile for Autohotkey users this would also be a nice feature)
Thanks for the desire to nerd out with the developers of such a great app :)!

[crutkas]

From @tarik02 and issue #4439

Proposed technical implementation details
I'm not an expert in WinAPI, but searching through internet gives some ideas about possible implementation details. I've discovered the following links:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getforegroundwindow
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getmenu
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18590728/7519762
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2862883/is-it-possible-to-enumerate-menu-items-of-other-programs-on-windows

So, we can capture current foreground window when opening PowerToys Run window, get its menu and use it in search results.