Use case or problem When in ‘Settings’ I do not want to use the mouse. I can enter the settings section, with keyboard shortcut, then I also want to navigate and search without having to use the mouse. Currently I have to navigate with my mouse and when searching I have to select the ‘search’, or ‘…

Hi :slightly_smiling_face: What is happening with this feature request? I just started using obsidian, and this was one of the first things I noticed. And I am opening settings many times a day so this would be a great improvement. I cannot see any reason why for example the “Search community plugin…

Try the Hotkey Helper and Settings Search plugins; Hotkey Helper autofocuses the search boxes (and also highlights keyboard conflicts), and Settings Search lets you search all settings for all plugins and jump to anything, with keyboard nav between search results, enter to jump to the selected setti…

[image] pjeby: and Settings Search lets you search all settings for all plugins and jump to anything, with keyboard nav between search results, enter to jump to the selected setting. Thanks, this looks promising! However I am not able to get the “Settings Search” to work yet. See this issue: H…

I agree. Having the same issue when trying this out. At least the search option reduces some clicking.

Hey, Devs, can we get some love here? Obsidian needs to be friendlier to keyboard-only navigation. Many of us don’t want to touch a mouse if we can help it! This can’t just be solved with plugins, can it??

Changing Settings similar to VS Code would be great.

This FR is a duplicate of [image] Search in Settings Feature requests It would be nice if there was an added search functionality to Settings. I find myself remapping hotkeys and adjusting various plugins and editor settings frequently, and being able to searc…

Keyboard navigation and searching in 'Settings'

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