I dimly remember a few versions back a ‘command panel’ popup was introduced, where you effectively invoke menu actions and stamps by typing their name, It reminded me of the palette in OmniFocus, and a thousand other hip pieces of software (engaged in reinventing emacs as a UI)
Was this a fever dream? I cannot find a way of invoking it in Tinderbox. I’ve hunted through atbref and the TB documentation, where I’m sure I saw it mentioned under release notes, but now I’m quite stumped. Can anyone let me know I’m losing my mind, or they keyboard shortcut to invoke it, if not?
Thank you @mwra for restoring faith in my memory! It seems while these are being quite widely adopted, there’s not so much consistency in shortcuts and terminology. I was struggling to recall it was called a ‘bar’ round these parts.
I’m not sure the ‘Bar’ is a term with consistent/widespread use. I think this ‘type’ of feature varies from app to app. Essentially, it is a sort of spotlight search across more that menu items (as it done by the standard Help menu search bar). I’m not sure how Tinderbox’s works under the hood.
You might also find the Search† feature recently added to aTbRef to be of use. The Search is in the quick actions menu top and bottom of every aTbRef page (right-most link). It does a ‘fuzzy’ search on an index of the text of all documents.
†. Not my design - please the the acknowledgements on the search page for the clever folk who designed the feature, which I only discovered via a Tinderbox user’s blog (@dmrogers) mentioning another user’s blog not then known to me (@jackbaty). So many hands brought this to fruition, and thanks to them all.