The / hotkey does not work

[Artur-]

In the readme there is

<a href="/search" data-hotkey="s,/">Search</a>

the same code is used in the GitHub toolbar that says "Type / to search".

The problem is that pressing / (shift + 7 on a finnish keyboard) does not trigger the search. It does nothing. Pressing "s" does trigger it.

[keithamus]

For shortcuts like these to work, you must have "Character keys" enabled within the accessibility options within your GitHub settings. Please also make sure you're not using a browser extension that might override these, such as vim-mode extensions.

[Artur-]

Uh... so to use the shortcut mentioned by default on the frontpage of all repositories in GitHub, I must configure something?

[Artur-]

Seems like they are enabled by default though

[Artur-]

Removing all extension make no difference either

[keithamus]

Uh... so to use the shortcut mentioned by default on the frontpage of all repositories in GitHub, I must configure something?

The option is enabled by default.

Could you please visit https://www.toptal.com/developers/keycode and press the / key, and take a screenshot of the values that come back. Thank you.

[Artur-]

[formspiel]

Hi,
I can confirm that the same code is true on the German keyboard.

It's super awesome that the icon is visually present to support learnability, but I tried so often, and it never worked. It's a bit disappointing. Hope I can also help to get this to work.

Yes, accessibility option is enabled.

[keithamus]

Can you please visit this page: https://github.github.io/hotkey/examples/hotkey_mapper.html and, once loaded, tap the desired key and report back with a screenshot - and perhaps copy the code? Thanks.

[formspiel]

To achieve "/" on a German keyboard, I've to press "shift" and "7"
The Hotkey Mapper output is:
Shift+/

[cmawhorter]

shift seems like a problematic hotkey target. here's some results from the mapper on my mac en-US keyboard:

• Shift + a = Shift+A
• caps lock enabled; a = A
• caps lock enabled; Shift + a = Shift+A (IIRC on windows, caps lock + shift will result in lowercase? if that's still true then Shift+a is possible)

obviously caps lock is an edge case, but it exemplifies the problem that the keyboard event key and shift aren't much related.

github.com should have the same problem as OP for me with the ? hotkey since that results in "Shift+?" in the mapper, but i'm guessing that hotkey is handled differently.

looking through the vscode keyboard shortcuts, i don't see any using shift and i'd bet this is why.

[formspiel]

Hi.
I stumbled across hotkey again and the issue still exists but slightly different (weird) on a Mac (my former comment was on Windows).

My user agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/129.0.0.0

Use case
Using "/" to open search on a non-US keyboard with a Mac

Test
type Shift + / into the Mapper and the output is: Shift+?

Behaviour on Github
Typing Shift + / opens the keyboard help (which makes sense, but it's wrong)

I have the feeling that this is an Apple issue. E.g., if you operate on a Mac before installing the OS any (even build-in) keyboard is US. What a stupid and egoistic view. :-(