Use `CTRL+f` to open the search box?

[humitos]

In https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search/pull/31 we added / as a hotfix to open the search box which is good.

Today I found that Stripe docs goes a step further here and uses CTRL+f which I thought immediately it was a bad decision because "I want to use just the regular search of my browser", but then I saw it says that you can hit CTRL+f again to switch to the default search feature :100:

NOTE the message and checkbox at the bottom right

You can try it by yourself at https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/types

[astrojuanlu]

I'm generally very annoyed when a website intercepts Ctrl+F or any other usual keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Tab. I wonder if there's some user research available out there.

[stsewd]

I'm generally very annoyed when a website intercepts Ctrl+F or any other usual keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Tab. I wonder if there's some user research available out there.

same, was just reading the stripe docs, and hijacking my ctrl-f is annoying, didn't even read the "pressing ctrl-f again" suggestion, I just assumed it wasn't possible to have my firefox's search back...

[astrojuanlu]

https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/1465196733567320068

Can we close this as won't-fix? 😄

[choldgraf]

In my opinion, this could be a decision that individual themes make, rather than this extension. For example, in the PyData theme we use ctrl + k to open up the search bar, and it'd be nice if we could automatically hook into this extension instead if it were activated.

So you could document how other themes could use this extension + activate it via a keyboard shortcut as they wish.

[humitos]

Moved the conversation to https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-client/issues/43