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Enable Enter to search next word within documentation on help pane
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Description
Could you consider hitting enter (and shift enter or else) to search next (previous) word within the documentation? Currently I'm using Positron without RStudio keybindings enabled.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b6aa9d80-7d1c-4d2b-b600-49616e3c6cd9
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the help pane's documentation search and keyboard-handling entry points in the TypeScript code, then inspect how search focus and navigation currently work without RStudio keybindings. Done means Enter advances to the next match and Shift+Enter moves to the previous match, with the behavior verified in the help pane.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- documentation, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100