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Idea: Interactive Command Palette

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Component: UI Effort: High Impact: High UI: Command Palette
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Description

Sublime Text's command palette offers a "feedback loop" where some actions continue to receive their input directly in the palette. For example, the arithmetic action:
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Additionally, there is a "choose from a list" interaction type as well, shown here:

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This is a really nice way to interact with actions and reduces the need for modals. If this were a thing, there are a handful of existing actions that can be improved, and some potential new ones:

  • "Go to address" dialog could be eliminated and turned into a command palette interactive action
  • Settings could be customized quickly directly from the command palette
  • "Change type" and "change name" could be interactive command palette actions
  • Probably many more things (you get the idea)

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating the existing command palette and modal-based actions, then define the interaction model and acceptance criteria for feedback-loop input and list selection. Done should include an agreed design and working support for the proposed interactive actions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
frontend, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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