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Bug 64905 - VisualEditor: Provide an omnibar for quick keyboard access to tools
VisualEditor: Provide an omnibar for quick keyboard access to tools
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2014-05-05 16:58 UTC by James Forrester
Modified: 2014-06-02 15:47 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description James Forrester 2014-05-05 16:58:04 UTC
From MediaWiki.org:

> I would like to have an omnibar in VE. This is a single text field where
> a user can search for things they want to do, instead of clicking a
> button you can invoke omnibar with a keyboard shortcut and then search
> for the task you want to do. This would be helpful to easier access those
> buttons which don't have shortcuts now. Like managing category, inserting
> reference, changing to source editor etc.

Seems like it could be a lot of work to implement – for example, internationalisation of such controls might be hard – but it might be particularly useful for power users (or for controls that don't have a keyboard shortcut, as the proposer notes).

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