✨ Open Quickly Overlay

[austincondiff]

• Decide on a keyboard shortcut to use to evoke a quick open search bar.
  • Xcode: Cmd+Shift+O
  • VS Code, Atom, Sublime Text: Cmd+Opt+P
• Build search bar similar to Apple Spotlight or Xcode quick open
• Build file list of search results
• Keyboard navigation to navigate list and select option, or escape

[lukepistrol]

I like cmd + Shift + O more

[austincondiff]

Let's do it then since we are trying to steer closer to Xcode rather than VS Code. We can always develop an extension that provides VS Code key bindings.

[viktorstrate]

Potentially relevant WWDC about creating child windows and sending events between windows.

https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/download.action?path=/videos/wwdc_2010__hd/session_145__key_event_handling_in_cocoa_applications.mov

[pkasila]

I'll try to implement it

[pkasila]

I've reopened this issue because keyboard navigation works for the list, but some changes should be done. Because at the moment I haven't figured out how to implement great keyboard navigation to switch between list and search field and open files (not just switch in the panel's NavigationView).

[austincondiff]

Very nice! We might use some of the same components for the command palette. Just a few more things before we can close this issue...

• Padding, spacing, font-sizes and dimensions are slightly off, please refer to the figma concept for exact specifications.
• The bottom half of the overlay should be hidden if there is no characters in the input. Just like spotlight.
• The vertical separator should be the same color as the horizontal separator.