Auto focus search box when expanding sidebar
kidonng opened this issue · 2 comments
kidonng commented
When the sidebar is expanded (either automatically or via shortcuts), it would be ideal to focus the search box automatically so users can start searching immediately.
EnixCoda commented
Thanks for reminding me. Not sure if this feature was removed during the last large scope refactor. Or it was implemented in my imagination? 🫢
There will be an improvement in accessibility & usability next time, including an enhancement for this.
EnixCoda commented
A keyboard shortcut setting for focusing search input has been added in v3.9.0. Instead of applying auto-focus to search input. Because
- The file explorer needs to be auto-focused so that the active element of the file list will be preserved. Users can continue browsing files after toggling Gitako's sidebar.
- If a user is going to use search input, he/she has to use the keyboard to type. So I suppose adding a keyboard shortcut would be convenient and not conflict with
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