Keyboard shortcut improvements: tab switching, editor duplicate-line, dialog Enter/Escape - #10067
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Caution Review failedAn error occurred during the review process. Please try again later. WalkthroughThe changes update browser tab navigation shortcuts, add save and close keyboard handling to schema dialogs, and add line or selection duplication to the SQL editor. Regression tests cover tab selection and dialog Escape handling. ChangesKeyboard Shortcuts Enhancement
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves dockable dialogs but currently leaves them open instead of completing the promised save-and-close action. Merge should wait for the close-after-success behavior and its test to be added. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Pull request overview
This PR improves keyboard navigation across pgAdmin’s main workspace tabs, SQL editor (CodeMirror), and SchemaView-based dialogs, and updates documentation/release notes accordingly.
Changes:
- Fixes main tab switching shortcuts so they work even when focus is inside nested tools/iframes, and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set.
- Adds SQL editor shortcut Mod+Shift+D to duplicate the current line/selection.
- Adds dialog/panel shortcuts: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to trigger Save, and Escape to Close (for dockable panel dialogs).
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| web/pgadmin/static/js/SchemaView/SchemaDialogView.jsx | Add keydown handling for Ctrl/Cmd+Enter (save) and Escape (close) in SchemaView dialogs. |
| web/pgadmin/static/js/components/ReactCodeMirror/components/Editor.jsx | Add CodeMirror keybinding for duplicating current line/selection. |
| web/pgadmin/browser/static/js/keyboard.js | Improve main workspace tab switching by finding the active workspace tab independent of focus and limiting cycling to the active tab-set. |
| web/pgadmin/browser/register_browser_preferences.py | Update default tab-switch shortcuts and correct bracket key codes. |
| docs/en_US/release_notes_9_16.rst | Document the new shortcuts and the tab-switch fix in 9.16 release notes. |
| docs/en_US/keyboard_shortcuts.rst | Update shortcut documentation for new defaults and editor duplicate-line shortcut. |
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| // Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves and closes the dialog from anywhere within it | ||
| // (issue #7167). onSaveClick is a no-op when there is nothing to save or | ||
| // there is a validation error, so this is safe to call unconditionally. |
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| | `Issue #6308 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/6308>`_ - Fix the infinite loading spinner after an idle database connection is silently dropped, by detecting stale connections and offering a reconnect dialog. | ||
| | `Issue #7232 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7232>`_ - Fix the tabbed panel forward/backward shortcut not switching the main tabs when keyboard focus is inside a tool (SQL editor, PSQL terminal, ERD or Schema Diff). The default shortcut is now Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+] / [ to avoid colliding with the Query Tool's inner-panel navigation. |
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Two correctness issues to address:
SchemaDialogView.jsx—onKeyDown={onKeyDown}is attached to<StyledBox>inside theuseMemo(() => …, [schema._id, viewHelperProps.mode, resetKey])block, andonKeyDownis not in the deps array. The handler closes overprops.onClose, so on a parent re-render that supplies a newonClose, Escape will call the stale callback. Either move<StyledBox onKeyDown={…}>outside theuseMemo(recommended — only the children need memoization), or addonKeyDownto the deps.keyboard.js bindRightPanel— the new selectorrootDock.querySelectorAll('.dock-tab.dock-tab-active .dock-tab-btn')matches innerDockLayouts inside SQL Editor / ERD / Debugger too. The only filter is!tab.id.includes('id-object-explorer'), which doesn't excluderc-dock-tab-btn-id-query,id-dataoutput,id-messagesetc., so the shortcut can still navigate inner tabs instead of workspace tabs — i.e. the bug this PR claims to fix is only partially solved. Restrict to the top-level dock (e.g. viatab.closest('.dock-layout') === topDockLayout) or use theLayoutDockerAPI directly.
Minor: the key_code default change for tabbed_panel_backward / tabbed_panel_forward (91/93 → 219/221) has no DB migration, so existing users on the old saved default keep the old behavior. Consistent with prior precedent but worth a one-time migration for the affected pair.
No new tests added for onKeyDown, copyLineDown, or the panel-navigation flow.
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In `@web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js`:
- Around line 68-101: Update the Ctrl/Cmd+Enter handler in SchemaDialogView so
the save path reports success and invokes props.onClose only after onSave
resolves successfully; preserve the dialog’s open state when saving fails.
Extend the keyboard tests around pressEscape to verify that the shortcut
performs the save and then closes the dialog.
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| it('closes the dialog on Escape', async () => { | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Close the dialog after a successful Ctrl/Cmd+Enter save.
The tests cover Escape only. The supplied SchemaDialogView.jsx handler calls onSaveClick() for Ctrl/Cmd+Enter but never calls props.onClose. The shortcut saves but leaves the dockable dialog open.
Make the save path report success, then call props.onClose only after onSave resolves. Add a Ctrl/Cmd+Enter test that verifies both save and close behavior.
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In `@web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js` around
lines 68 - 101, Update the Ctrl/Cmd+Enter handler in SchemaDialogView so the
save path reports success and invokes props.onClose only after onSave resolves
successfully; preserve the dialog’s open state when saving fails. Extend the
keyboard tests around pressEscape to verify that the shortcut performs the save
and then closes the dialog.
- Fix the main "tabbed panel forward/backward" shortcut not switching the workspace tabs when keyboard focus is inside a tool (SQL editor, PSQL terminal, ERD or Schema Diff). bindRightPanel now locates the active workspace tab via rc-dock's dock-tab-active class, independent of focus, and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set. The default shortcut is changed to Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+] / [ so it no longer collides with the Query Tool's inner-panel navigation (Alt+Shift+] / [) and does not emit glyphs on macOS; the bogus key codes (Meta/ContextMenu) are corrected to the bracket key codes. - Add Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D to duplicate the current line or selection in the SQL editor. - Add Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to save and close object/utility dialogs (including the Query Tool sort/filter dialog), and Escape to close them - dialogs rendered as dockable panels (Properties, Backup, etc.) previously had neither. The Escape handler is scoped to panel dialogs (skips MUI modals, which already close on Escape) and yields to inner controls that handle Escape first. Closes pgadmin-org#7232 Closes pgadmin-org#3834 Closes pgadmin-org#7167 Closes pgadmin-org#5691 Closes pgadmin-org#5196
The Escape and Ctrl+Enter handler was attached to the memoized element, so it captured whichever props.onClose and onSaveClick existed when the memo deps last changed. Any parent re-render supplying a new onClose, which is the normal case where it is defined inline, left Escape calling the stale one. Only the dialog body is memoized now; the wrapper carrying the handler is created on every render, which is what the review recommended and costs nothing since the body is what is expensive. For the tab navigation I could not reproduce the reported failure. With rc-dock's DOM as it is rendered, a panel's tab buttons precede the nested DockLayout inside its own tab pane, so the search for "the active tab that is not the object explorer" finds the workspace tab before it reaches the SQL editor's Data Output tab, and the existing .dock-panel filter then keeps the cycling within the workspace. What is true is that this only holds by accident of document order. The search is now confined to the outermost dock layout, so a tool's tabs cannot take part however rc-dock chooses to order its panels, and the test builds exactly that case: with the nested layout placed first, the previous code cycled Data Output and Messages instead of the workspace tabs. Both fixes have tests that fail without them: web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js holds the callback case, keeping the same schema instance so nothing invalidates the memo, and web/regression/javascript/browser/keyboard_navigation_spec.js covers the tab selection, including the object explorer being excluded and the case where no workspace tabs exist. On the missing migration for the tabbed_panel_backward/forward defaults: Preference.get() falls back to the registered default whenever the user has no saved row, so anyone who has not customised these shortcuts picks up Ctrl+Alt+[ and ] with no migration at all. Anyone who has saved a value keeps it, which is the behaviour I would want: silently rewriting a shortcut somebody chose deliberately is worse than leaving it alone.
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Summary
A cluster of keyboard-shortcut improvements across the workspace tabs, the SQL
editor, and dialogs.
Main tab switching (#7232)
The "Tabbed panel forward/backward" shortcut did nothing when keyboard focus
was inside a tool (SQL editor, PSQL terminal, ERD/Schema Diff canvas), because
bindRightPanelresolved the target tab fromdocument.activeElement, whichpointed at the tool's own nested dock tab rather than a workspace tab. It now
locates the active workspace tab via rc-dock's
dock-tab-activeclass(independent of focus) and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set.
The default was also colliding with the Query Tool's inner-panel navigation
(both were
Alt+Shift+] / [) and emitted typographic glyphs on macOS. Thedefault is changed to Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+] / [ (inner-panel nav keeps
Alt+Shift+] / [, unchanged), and the bogus key codes (Meta / ContextMenu —the latter literally triggered the browser's "display a menu") are corrected to
the real bracket key codes.
SQL editor (#3834)
Add Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D to duplicate the current line or selection.
Dialogs (#7167, #5691, #5196)
Object/utility dialogs rendered as dockable panels (Properties, Backup, the
Query Tool sort/filter dialog, etc.) gain:
The Escape handler is scoped to panel dialogs (MUI modals already close on
Escape) and yields to inner controls that handle Escape first (e.g. an open
dropdown). This also makes the unsaved-changes confirmation operable from the
keyboard (#5196) without explicit per-button letter shortcuts.
Test plan
Verified interactively in a desktop-mode instance:
Default shortcuts and the new editor shortcut are documented in
keyboard_shortcuts.rst.Closes #7232
Closes #3834
Closes #7167
Closes #5691
Closes #5196
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