Bug 551384 - [preferences] Keyboard shortcut to focus search
Summary: [preferences] Keyboard shortcut to focus search
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.14   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2019-09-23 15:28 EDT by Paul Benedict CLA
Modified: 2019-09-23 15:28 EDT (History)
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Description Paul Benedict CLA 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>.