vercel / vercel/hyper

Select All operation is not possible in the search bar

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Description

  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version

  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

  • OS version and name: macOS 12

  • Hyper.app version: 3.3.0 (but also built canary from source)

  • Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: N/A

  • Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere): N/A

  • The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Is Vanilla

Issue

Impossible to use the "Select All" command in the search bar. Either pressing "Cmd + A" on the keyboard, or right clicking the search bar and selecting "Select All" in the menu, performs "Select All" on the terminal window rather than the search bar.

Selecting all text in the search bar is really useful when navigating through the terminal content, and also this selecting the terminal content while the search box is in focus is really unexpected from the usability perspective.

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Research direction

Start by locating the search bar entry point and tracing its keyboard and context-menu handling for Cmd+A and Select All. Reproduce the issue on macOS, then verify that both commands select the search-bar text rather than terminal content while the search bar is focused.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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