Bug 519617 - [staging] focus filter field on typing in staging area
Summary: [staging] focus filter field on typing in staging area
Status: NEW
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Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.8   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2017-07-13 08:11 EDT by Michael Keppler CLA
Modified: 2017-07-13 08:11 EDT (History)
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Description Michael Keppler CLA 2017-07-13 08:11:42 EDT
Since we can just type ahead in most lists or trees to find an item starting with the keys we typed, I recently tried this in the staging view in my file list, when I was looking for a specific file in the changes.

That does not work, and may be some additional effort to support. However, since there is already a filter field available, what about just focusing the filter field (and sending the current key), whenever a key for an alphanum character is pressed in the staging area? That way, a user automatically gets "redirected" into the filter, when trying to navigate to a file name by typing it.