Gary King Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I use the Tab key to action items, so I'd like it if it was possible to choose an alternative key to auto-complete searches. The Ctrl key would work for me, for instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 CTRL is one of the modifier keys you can use to perform alternate actions on results. ESC would be a better choice, but why can't you use RETURN to action items? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary King Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 Well I use the Return key to open items like applications, files, and folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Oh right, I see what you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rice.shawn Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 ESC is a poor choice because it violates its (almost-) system wide functionality of canceling / dismissing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I was getting confused again. I meant OPT+ESC, which is the system default completion key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitor Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I’d really welcome this feature as well. Using ⇥ to action items is way more natural to me, and I action items way more often then autocompleting. Occasionally, though, It would be useful to autocomplete something, and I can’t the option doesn’t exist (since ⇥ is taken). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aterwarl Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 This option is very much needed. From what I understand, Alfred makes it possible to set ⇥ as an alternative key to show the Action panel -- which seems quite natural for users coming from Quicksilver. But since there is no way to use an alternative key for autocompletion, this creates a conflict: using ⇥ to show the Action panel makes it impossible to use autocompletion. Note that this conflict could be avoided without even having to set an alternative autocomplete key, by simply considering multiple ⇥. The first ⇥ could be reserved for autocompletion; but once autocompletion is done, the second ⇥ could bring up the Action panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I've added a ticket to consider what can be done about this. I agree that there should be an alternative mechanism for autocomplete if the tab key has been used for actions. Note that this conflict could be avoided without even having to set an alternative autocomplete key, by simply considering multiple ⇥. The first ⇥ could be reserved for autocompletion; but once autocompletion is done, the second ⇥ could bring up the Action panel. While this is a good idea in theory, some of the 3rd party workflow script filters will give you different results after auto completing with tab which, means you wouldn't be able to get to the action. It may simply be another key combo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'm just having a play with this now and have decided that if you set tab to show actions then backtab will auto complete (i.e. shift+tab). This will be documented in the subtext under Alfred's Features > File Search > Actions > Show Actions prefs. This will be in the next release Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary King Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 I'm just having a play with this now and have decided that if you set tab to show actions then backtab will auto complete (i.e. shift+tab). This will be documented in the subtext under Alfred's Features > File Search > Actions > Show Actions prefs. This will be in the next release Cheers, Andrew That doesn't sound intuitive to me. Shift-tab is usually meant to do the exact reverse of what Tab does; for instance when navigating menu items, Tab goes to the next menu item and Shift-Tab goes to the previous one. So Shift-Tab so instead go from the Action pane back to the results list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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