Search Keyboard Shortcut Conflict

[spencer-shadley]

The search (ctrl+K) keyboard shortcut conflicts with some browser defaults, such as Chrome's search google shortcut.

Repro:

• On windows / chrome open https://patternize.github.io/docs/Patterns/Backtracking/Introduction
• Press ctrl+K
• Browser search opens, instead of the website search

Suggestion: Add an alt modifier to avoid the conflict. This is a frequent paradigm for browser-based keyboard shortcuts (for example, Google Docs uses ctrl+alt+num for toggling header styles to avoid conflicting with the browser shortcut for switching tabs (ctrl+num).

[gazcn007]

Hey Spencer, I am using Docusaurus as a skeleton for the site, and they use DocSearch out of the box.

There is a thread of people discussing if they should use Ctrl+K as a hot key or not, I think it is good to let them know about the potential shortcut conflicts, esp. on Windows. https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/2815#issuecomment-652438605

I will follow up on that thread