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Keyboard shortcut for focusing on tab

Open dmocek opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

First, thank you for the effort you put into Zeal.

Now, to keyboard shortcuts...I am a heavy keyboard user and would like to see more shortcuts for better keyboard navigation. Let me know if you need any suggestions or help.

Specifically (as a start), I would like to be able to use Ctrl+K to search for something, then use another keyboard shortcut to have the focus on the current tab so I can browse the documentation. For example, if you search for 'java:string', the page for Class String shows in the tab. However, there is no keyboard shortcut I can find to just get the focus to the tab so I can use PageUp/Down to browse the documentation. Alt+1 doesn't work. The only thing that seems to work is using Ctrl+F. Although it works somewhat (it's not fully functional), it doesn't make sense to use Search for Focus. Ctrl+F opens the search at the bottom and PageUp/Down does work, but the other standard keys don't work like Home/End. Clicking on the text in the tab does what I want and the usual keys like PageUp/Down and Home/End do work.

dmocek avatar Jun 09 '19 23:06 dmocek

After finding and selecting something in the search bar, hitting the 'Enter' key does put focus on the browser/tab. However, it would be nice to offer a specific shortcut to focus on the browser/tab.

dmocek avatar Oct 06 '20 15:10 dmocek