Zeal: Make Control+L focus the search bar (like browsers)

[sunaku]

Please make Control+L focus the search bar, like how Web browsers focus their URL address bar.

See http://www.howtogeek.com/114518/47-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-in-all-web-browsers/

[trollixx]

Thanks, I'll add it shortly. Currently Escape does that, I cannot say I am happy with the choice.

Making Zeal behave more like traditional web browsers is only of my goals. Also, configurable shortcuts could be a good option as well.

Related issues: #10 and #62.

[trollixx]

I've just discovered that we also have ? shortcut for selection of the current query without prefix. Not sure if anyone is aware about this. :)

I am implementing Ctrl+L right now. It will select the current search term without prefix (if any), and then select everything on the second press.

[trollixx]

LOL, further investigation has shown that there's also Ctrl+K for the same purpose.

For the sake of the history:
?: 6c45498212351a341d987f64affdae5ebe0d93d3
Ctrl+K: a4125be39f64440377612f08effb6fbfb2cea08a

[sunaku]

From *NIX perspective, ? is also strange. I would expect / to search instead (it works in Firefox). :sweat_smile:

Update: Zeal already supports / for searching _within_ current page, so please disregard my comment.

[trollixx]

After some thinking, I have become less confident in this particular case. Firefox and Chromium support F6, Alt+D, Ctrl+L to focus address bar, and Ctrl+K allows to select search bar (In Chromium it switches address bar to search-only mode).

In Zeal the search bar is really just a search bar, not an address bar. It does not update when one's navigates through pages. To be consistent with browsers keeping Ctrl+K as the only shortcut is the right way.

I have some plans to add a breadcrumbs panel like the one Dash has. It might be that Ctrl+L et al. would work for focusing such panel better.

[trollixx]

There's also Ctrl+E for activating the search mode in Chromium and Opera.

So many different options :)

[sunaku]

True. :scream_cat: I think that documenting ? and / keys might suffice: I use them regularly now.

[Konfekt]

Hitting Ctrl+K in Firefox opens a new page over here.

Be it named address- or search-bar, every popular browser lets you search by hitting Ctrl+L and entering a search term, so that Zeal would be most intuitive if it let you search by hitting Ctrl+L and entering a search term.

[Konfekt]

Since then, any make news on making Ctrl+L focus the search field too? The breadcrumbs search bar? It would make Zeal more intuitive.

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