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evanshultz / neater-bookmarks

A neater bookmarks tree popup extension for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofgjggbjanlhbgaemjbkiegeebmccifi
MIT License
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Add ability to change "*" to some other key #2

Closed evanshultz closed 10 years ago

evanshultz commented 11 years ago

Add ability to change default search character (asterisk) to some other character. In the Czech QWERTZ keyboard, without a numeric block of keys, asterisk is not fast character to type and switching the keyboard layout to English takes time and is inconvenient.

From https://github.com/cheeaun/neat-bookmarks/issues/25.

evanshultz commented 11 years ago

Are there other languages and/or keyboard layouts that suffer from this problem?

evanshultz commented 11 years ago

One limited workaround is to browse to chrome://chrome/extensions/ and add a Keyboard Shortcut to Neater Bookmarks using the "Configure commands" link at the bottom of the page. This allows you to specify a keyboard command to "active" the extension (in this case open the popup). Since the Search box has focus, after hitting the shortcut key you can immediately begin typing to search your bookmarks.

Of course, since the search term is saved, when the popup is opened again the bookmarks will be filtered and not all bookmarks will be displayed. This is the limitation versus having a user-definable key to search bookmarks in the omnibox.

Note that Keyboard Shortcuts were introduced in Chrome 22, so it hasn't yet reached the Stable channel.

Owyn commented 10 years ago

That ability is already given by Chrome, use chrome://settings/searchEngines page to change * to anything else you like

evanshultz commented 10 years ago

Thanks Owyn!