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keyboard-based file navigation or search in file browser #1556

Open akhmerov opened 7 years ago

akhmerov commented 7 years ago

If a user wanted to open a recently opened notebook file using the classic notebook server, she could rely on the browser history to open it or type it in the address bar. On the other hand, in the lab this is obviously not available. At the same time, the file browser in the lab is very minimalistic: there is no search and no address bar where one could type. The combination of these two slows down the navigation.

I am not sure which of the UI elements for speeding up file access would resolve the issue (there are definitely several decent alternative options), but I believe that for feature parity some navigation helper is required.

sccolbert commented 7 years ago

Sounds like a "recent files" plugin would be useful.

akhmerov commented 7 years ago

Yes, or an address bar with autocompletion in file browser.

blink1073 commented 7 years ago

Related: #1370.

jasongrout commented 5 years ago

See also recent experimentation by @parente on a "quick open" extension: https://github.com/parente/jupyterlab-quickopen