keyboardShortcut.js: pressing / to search no longer works

[rien333]

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ℹ Environment / Computer Info

- Spotify version: 1.2.47.364.gf06e5cee
- Spicetify version: 2.38.4
- OS: Arch Linux

📝 Description

Extensions/keyboardShortcut.js provides / as a search key, as in vim.

However, somewhat recently (probably during the 1.2.47 update, which revamped the search bar), this shortcut key has stopped working.

More specifically, spotify goes into "searching mode", but the search bar itself remains unfocused.

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[rxri]

/ shortcut only redirects to /search. If it did focus search bar, then it was on spotify side and not ours.

https://github.com/spicetify/cli/blob/main/Extensions/keyboardShortcut.js#L55

[rien333]

/ shortcut only redirects to /search

This is a good technical explanation of why this issue occurs, but misses the intent behind this bug report and/or the extension.
The intended behavior of the / bind is — and always has been — to match the functionality of the built-in Ctrl-L shortcut. That it now simply redirects to /search is an implementation-level detail, without any special significance — / has not always been a simple redirector. This current implementation worked for a while, but now it no longer does.

Of course, closing this because of a lack of interest is perfectly valid, but at that point I feel like extensions should be maintained out of tree (which I feel like is in the works?)