Change keyboard shortcut to switch between Filter and Global Search

[oeekker]

At the moment the keyboard shortcut to switch between Filter and Global Search is Ctrl+A. However, Ctrl+A normally has the meaning to select all text. This function is lost when you override Ctrl+A to switch mode. This is a problem when you have entered a long search text and want to change it. Normally you'd press Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+X or just type the new search text, but now Unified Search switches to the other search mode. In order to select all text you now have to tab out and then back in the search box or press home to move to the start, hold down shift and press end to move to the end. Both methods are cumbersome and it is easy to forget not to press Ctrl+A in the first place...

[IagoSRL]

Thanks for the info! You are right, is quite annoying.

Only a note: on my case (Thunderbird 17.0.7) when presing Ctrl+A both actions are done: mode is switched and all the text is selected. Then, a second Ctrl+A returns to the previous mode.

In the middle time, a quick way to use 'select all text' is to do a double Ctrl+A.
But this is my case (Thunderbird in es-ES locale), reviewing your comment I must suppose that the text is not selected when press Ctrl+A, only the mode is changed, right? Can I know whats your installation locale, version and operating system?

Alternative, the quickest way is to change the shortcut for 'switch mode' from the extension options, the Alt+A shortcut is available, this will let you use Ctrl+A without problems; but I will need to add another shortcut option, because this last (Alt+A) have compatibility problems on es-ES installations of Thunderbird and I planned disabled it :-(.

Thanks for the feedback!

PS: Last note, I recommend you use the latest version of Unified Search (0.7.2) downloading from the tag 0.7.2 page (still not available as automatic updated), and use the Unified Search Widget.