RFE: allow [Alst+Shift+S] shortcut to launch semantic-search form at Special:Ask with keyboard only

[ankostis]

• SMW version: 2.5.8

Problem

I don't know of a way to launch searches only with keyboard. Having to use the mouse when building queries just for clicking the submit button is not user friendly for advanced users.

Suggested enhancement

Bind accesskey="s" to the "Find results" submit button, so [Alt+Shift+S] runs the query (tested in Chrome only).

Note: "S" may mean "search", and is the same as the "Save" shortcut on mediawiki edit boxes.

Workaround:

I have put this in my mediaWiki:Common.js:

$(function () {
	// Allow to semantic-search with [Alt+Shift+S] in Special:Ask form.
	//
	$('input.smw-ask-action-btn.smw-ask-action-btn-dblue').each(function() {
		$(this).attr('accesskey', 's');
	});
});

[kghbln]

Thanks a lot for suggesting this enhancement and also showing a way to do this. Indeed "s" is already taken by MW core. However we are talking about a special page here were this key should not be available.

[ankostis]

After having experimented for a week with [Alt+Shift+S],
i can tell that finger-RAM jupms to [Alt+Shift+P] (preview) because running queries feels like revieing a page while editing, a much less intrusive action than S (for saving), which you press only rarely.

So eventually i've changed accesskey it to P.
(from "perform search"?)

[ankostis]

Fallback to [Ctrl+S]; firefox open private browsing with 'p'.

[ankostis]

Closed by mistake.