Use / to search

[dev-ardi]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/1382

I don't want to have to use my mouse to select the search box! This is mainly for https://search.nixos.org/ but it could also be applied to the wiki and other places.

In most places you can use / to search. Github, gitlab, google search, rustdoc (soon)... It's the default vi key for search so I suggest using that.

[thecijal]

It would be pretty cool to get into the search box by typing /. I also think <Ctrl>+<K> would be awesome.

[dev-ardi]

It would be pretty cool to get into the search box by typing /. I also think <Ctrl>+<K> would be awesome.

Once you have support for once it's probably trivial to add it for another hotkey. Curious, why Ctrl+k?

[thecijal]

Because Ctrl+k is a very common one as well as /. Just a few examples:

• https://hub.docker.com/
• https://docs.docker.com/
• https://piped.video/
• https://laravel.com/docs/11.x
• https://svelte.dev/
• https://react.dev/
• https://vuejs.org/
• https://vuetifyjs.com/en/
• https://tailwindcss.com/
• https://getbootstrap.com/
• Thunderbird (version 8 and later): Search All Messages (Global Search)
• https://github.com/ uses / and Ctrl+k too
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/
• https://podman-desktop.io/