Bug 551384

Summary:	[preferences] Keyboard shortcut to focus search
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Paul Benedict <pbenedict>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.14
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
Whiteboard:

Description Paul Benedict

2019-09-23 15:28:28 EDT

This is an enhancement request to the Preferences dialog.

I find no keyboard shortcut to focus on the filtering text box. Once focus moves elsewhere, the only ways to refocus are:
1) Direct mouse click
2) Series of reverse tabbing

Has a keyboard shortcut been previously considered? 

If it were added, it must not interfere with any preference control hot keys. That sounds simple enough though. Those hot keys all use a simple modifier like ALT+<key>, right? If so, the new keyboard shortcut would be a multi-key modifier like CTRL+ALT+<key>.