[feature request] built-in keyboard shortcut for search option

[camilogarciabotero]

Hi all,

Currently, the search option in the YAML has several options:

website:
  search: 
    location: navbar/sidebar
    type: overlay/textbox
    limit: 20
    collapse-after: 2
    copy-button: true/false

And it also has the algolia, a third-party search feature that requires extra configuration and has multiple current options, e.g:

website:
  search:
    algolia:
      index-name: <my-index-name>
      application-id: <my-application-id>
      search-only-api-key: <my-search-only-api-key>
    index-fields:
      href: url
      section: sec
      text: body
    params:
      tagFilters: ['tag1','tag2']

However, as you can see in the main algolia page they have a nice ctrl + k button to enable search focus rapidly. They provide information to allow it to by just adding export const keyboardShortcuts = ['+']; to the JS search file.

I was wondering if there is a built-in way to enable ctrl + k in the basic search provided by Quarto, something like:

website:
  search: 
    shortcut: true/false

[dMLTquant]

Having a shortcut to open search would be nice, but the Command K Bar you are referring to (as seen on Angolia, GitHub etc) is something different. Here is a nice article on it: https://maggieappleton.com/command-bar

Nevertheless, having a Command K Bar with Search included (something like this: kbar ) would be nice, and is something I am also interested in.

From what I have read so far, I am guessing it is a simple JavaScript issue such as implementing keydown + a Modal View from Bootstrap or implementing a JavaScript library such as Mousetrap and loading it into quarto via code reuse or using includes

[camilogarciabotero]

Wow! kbar looks great. That would be awesome to have something alike. It seems to me like what is also called a command palette that enables shortcut executions and so forth, including a search with the ? key. Nice article btw.

[dMLTquant]

It can be done. Here is a draft of what this could look like:

github > dMLTquant > ply_gitpod_quarto_nbdev_command-k-bar