Quick navigation overlay

[baconpaul]

Long discussion yesterday in #accessibility channel with me, Chessel, bscross and peitermach about how navigating around surge is tough because of so many controls. Thinking of clion shift shift i posited that maybe a jump dialog would work and apparently this is used in office, vscode, and more. And it seems it is a good idea. So rather than adding another 4000 keybindings, we can do the following

1. Pick one key (like Alt-J for jump) which opens a modal overlay
2. That modal overlay focuses on a single type where you type where you want to go and press enter
3. that goes there or does that

so, like Alt-J, LFO2, enter would select LFO 2 and move keyboard focus to the rate slider. Alt-J, OSC, enter would take you to the currently selected oscillator, Alt-J OSC3 Enter would select and jump to OSC3. Alt-J AFX1 enter etc...

We could also do small commands like Alt-J "mute osc1" enter

probably have a help thing on the overlay with text which you can press a button to read or show. that sort of thing.

Even though this feature was inspired by accesibility, I think i wouldd use it all the time.

Note to self: resist making a little language. "Alt-J mod lfo2 -> osc1.pitch enter" is a bad idea.

[mkruselj]

Maybe there are some hints in ReaConsole, coming from SWS extension for Reaper:

https://www.sws-extension.org/reaconsole.php

[baconpaul]

Oh yeah that’s exactly the same idea.

There’s one in vscode clion and bespoke also

will make life easy and be super extensible

[mkruselj]

Fuzzy search for available commands will be quite important, of course.

[baconpaul]

one step at a time.

[ironcross32]

I love everything about this.