Automatically jump to the first result when entering directly in the search form

[0xPoe]

See: #84214 (comment)

[rust-highfive]

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cc @GuillaumeGomez

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[0xPoe]

A simple demo:

Screen.Recording.2021-04-18.at.12.20.06.PM.mov

[GuillaumeGomez]

I don't find this behaviour very intuitive...

What do you think @rust-lang/rustdoc ?

[jyn514]

I like it; I think it makes it easier to navigate the docs. Normally enter would start a new search, but because rustdoc searches while you're typing, I don't think that's super useful.

[0xPoe]

I think this is acceptable, we already use use the enter to jump pages (instead of searching), then I think it is acceptable to jump to the first result by default.

[GuillaumeGomez]

I think this is acceptable, we already use use the enter to jump pages (instead of searching)

Where do we do that?

[0xPoe]

I think this is acceptable, we already use use the enter to jump pages (instead of searching)

Where do we do that?

When we move up and down with the keyboard, we can jump with a return.

[GuillaumeGomez]

Yes, but it's after the user hovers an element (either with the mouse or with up/down arrows). The action is then obvious.

Oh also, since you know well about UX, what do you think @jsha ?

[Manishearth]

I'm fine with this if off by default; it does seem like an improvement over the original feature.

Note that it'll probably directly match usize and modules and stuff (std::vec gets matched before std::vec::Vec)

Very reluctant to make the search page do stuff like this by default; because a state change like that is usually kinda jarring

[GuillaumeGomez]

If it's done with a setting like @Manishearth suggested (disabled by default), I'm fine with it.

[jsha]

Thanks for the tag, @GuillaumeGomez. I posted some thoughts on the issue thread at #84214 (comment)

[bors]

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #84490) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

[0xPoe]

@GuillaumeGomez @jyn514 @jsha What do you think about changing the feature to default highlighting the first result?

[GuillaumeGomez]

There is #84462 coming up, so in this context, I don't know how this PR could work...

[0xPoe]

There is #84462 coming up, so in this context, I don't know how this PR could work...

Got it. So let's wait for that PR to merge and then we'll see how to solve this problem.