Files pane lacks expected keyboard shortcuts & behaviour

Help
1

Steps to reproduce, expected & actual results

Open the sandbox vault, open the file explorer and focus on a file. Observe the following,

  1. Pressing Home/End doesn’t focus the first/last items in the file explorer.

  2. Pressing PgDown/PgUp scrolls the file explorers up/down a page as expected, but doesn’t change the focus along with it. Expand the sandbox folders and resize Obsidian down, to test this.

  3. Pressing the menu key (also, Shift+F10 on Windows) doesn’t open the context menu of the focused item.

  4. Shift+Up/Down allows selecting several items as expected; but,

    1. Pressing Esc doesn’t clear the selection.
    2. Continuing to press Up/Down with Shift released also doesn’t clear the selection. I’m guessing this is by design, because it allows making a non-continuous selection (which is very nice!!), but because of 4.1 there doesn’t seem to be a way to select a different range of items unless you use the mouse to reset the selection. Fixing 4.1 would make this a non-issue.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide?

Yes. Reproduced in sandbox.

Environment

Expand 
SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.8.9
	Installer version: v1.6.7
	Operating system: Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.22631
	Login status: not logged in
	Language: en
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 2
	Restricted mode: on
2

Hello.

1, 2, 3 are not bugs. They are just not implemented and there some open FR on the forum. Search for those and open the ones that are missing.

For 4. you can open a specifc BR about that one. Thanks!

3

Thanks for pointing this out; I didn’t think to search through feature requests for these items because I felt like the lack of “standard” shortcuts would be a bug :sweat_smile:.

  1. Found Let up arrow cycle from top item to bottom item in file explorer. Replied, proposing Home and
    End instead of the proposed arrow key wrapping.
  2. I couldn’t find the existing feature request for this.
  3. Found Hotkey to open context menu in File Explorer.
  4. Made Allow Esc to clear file explorer selection as suggested.