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Hey HN! My side-project KeyCombiner just got a major new feature addition: Search functionality over its complete database of keyboard shortcuts. You can searc
by tkainrad 6y ago
Hey HN!
My side-project KeyCombiner just got a major new feature addition:
Search functionality over its complete database of keyboard shortcuts. You can search (without login) by description, Win/Linux bindings, MacOS bindings, or a combination of these.
I can think of a couple of scenarios where this could be useful:
1. To see if there is a consensus for a particular operation, e.g., search for "Step out" and see that IDEs use F6 (Eclipse), F8 (Jetbrains), and F10(VSCode) for this. This could be helpful when thinking about key bindings for your application.
2. If you want to, as a user, assign your own key bindings and like to maximize compatibility in many different applications. Search if, eg ctrl+shift+a is already reserved for other things by the apps you use.
3. Last but not least, the main idea of KeyCombiner is to create your own shortcut collections and then learn and practice them, create cheat sheets, share with others, etc. The shortcut search helps to find combinations to put into your own collections. If you are logged in, the search results that are already in your collections will be marked. (I wish Spotify could do this with songs any my playlists!)
Largely thanks to the DataTables open source project, you can do many things with the result table in regards to filtering, row grouping, showing/hiding columns, and so on.
While the feature is not overly exciting from a technical standpoint, I like to think that it is interesting and useful because I haven't seen anything similar. I would love to hear what you think can be done with it.