Enter on results of advanced search to open attachment

z8080 · October 2, 2015

Often one needs to open each paper at a time from the results of an advanced search. To do this more quickly, one can navigate through the results using the arrow keys and press Enter to open the attachment (PDF) of the current item. Right now though, Enter in an advanced search window does nothing, although it does have this function on the item the cursor is currently on in the Library.

dstillman · October 2, 2015

Well, Enter should do the same as double-click. In Advanced Search, double-clicking currently selects the item in the main window, so if Enter did the same, you could press Enter twice to open the PDF.

I've created an issue for that.

We could consider having double-click/Enter trigger the main action directly from the Advanced Search window, but then nothing would happen for items without URLs. Selecting the item in the main window allows you to perform lots of other actions on the item, so we'd need some other way to get you back to the item in the main window (e.g., via a context menu).

z8080 · October 2, 2015

double clicking on an item in the advanced search results does indeed take me to that item in the Library, however Enter does nothing - it would be good if it did the same as double click, or indeed just open the item's attachment