Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Add "No keyword" as the default option in the Gerrit search dropdown list

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Add "No keyword" as the default option in the Gerrit search dropdown list

  • Problem: If the last word you entered in the Gerrit search box is part of a Gerrit keyword (e.g., "merged"), you would be forced to manually modify the URL after hitting the "Enter" key, because a dropdown list with Gerrit keywords (ending with colons) would pop up.
  • Proposed solution: Add "No keyword" as the default option in the Gerrit search dropdown list. That way, if you really meant to search for the word "merged", you would not be forced to enter a random date after "mergedafter:" and then manually modify the URL.
  • Who would benefit: Gerrit users
  • More comments:
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  • Proposer: GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 16:27, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

The following all work:

  • put the keyword in quotes
  • add an extra space at the end
  • hit ESC to hide the dropdown
  • hit a horizontal cursor key to hide the dropdown
  • hit a "noop" key (e.g. shift or insert) to hide the dropdown

--Tgr (talk) 00:08, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also I'd recommend proposing this in the Gerrit issue tracker first, and making sure they wouldn't oppose such a change, as it would have to be done upstream. --Tgr (talk) 00:11, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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