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Summary

A cluster of keyboard-shortcut improvements across the workspace tabs, the SQL
editor, and dialogs.

Main tab switching (#7232)

The "Tabbed panel forward/backward" shortcut did nothing when keyboard focus
was inside a tool (SQL editor, PSQL terminal, ERD/Schema Diff canvas), because
bindRightPanel resolved the target tab from document.activeElement, which
pointed at the tool's own nested dock tab rather than a workspace tab. It now
locates the active workspace tab via rc-dock's dock-tab-active class
(independent of focus) and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set.

The default was also colliding with the Query Tool's inner-panel navigation
(both were Alt+Shift+] / [) and emitted typographic glyphs on macOS, and its
key codes were wrong (Meta and ContextMenu, the latter opening the browser's
context menu). The default is now Ctrl+Alt+PageUp / PageDown (Ctrl+Option
on macOS; inner-panel navigation keeps Alt+Shift+] / [). Page Up and Page Down
were chosen because they type no character on any layout, so Windows AltGr
(which is reported as Ctrl+Alt) cannot collide with them the way Ctrl+Alt+[ did
with AltGr+ß on a German layout.

SQL editor (#3834)

Add Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D to duplicate the current line or selection.

Dialogs (#7167, #5691)

Object/utility dialogs rendered as dockable panels (Properties, Backup, the
Query Tool sort/filter dialog, etc.) gain:

The Escape handler is scoped to panel dialogs (MUI modals already close on
Escape) and yields to inner controls that handle Escape first (e.g. an open
dropdown).

Test plan

Verified interactively in a desktop-mode instance:

  • Tab switch works with focus in the SQL editor / PSQL / ERD / Schema Diff, cycling only the workspace tabs.
  • Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D duplicates the current line/selection.
  • Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves a dialog; Escape closes Properties/Backup dialogs (and modals still close once, dropdowns close first).

Default shortcuts and the new editor shortcut are documented in
keyboard_shortcuts.rst.

Closes #7232
Closes #3834
Closes #7167
Closes #5691

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  • New Features

    • Added shortcuts to duplicate the current line or selection in SQL editors: Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows/Linux and Cmd+Shift+D on Mac.
    • Added Ctrl+Alt+B on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+Option+B on Mac to toggle Object Explorer.
    • Added Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to save and close dialogs, and Escape to close them.
    • Changed the shortcuts for moving between tabbed panels to Ctrl+Alt+PageUp / PageDown on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+Option+PageUp / PageDown on Mac.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved keyboard navigation between workspace tabs, including layouts with nested panels.

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The changes update browser tab navigation, add keyboard handling to schema dialogs, and add line or selection duplication to the SQL editor. Regression tests cover tab selection, dialog keyboard actions, and line duplication.

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Keyboard Shortcut Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tabbed Panel Navigation
web/pgadmin/browser/register_browser_preferences.py, web/pgadmin/browser/static/js/keyboard.js, web/regression/javascript/browser/keyboard_navigation_spec.js, docs/en_US/keyboard_shortcuts.rst
Tab navigation uses Ctrl+Alt shortcuts on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+Option on Mac. bindRightPanel finds eligible active tabs in the outermost dock layout and excludes nested tool layouts and object explorer tabs. The shortcut table adds the Toggle Object Explorer entry.
Schema Dialog Keyboard Handling
web/pgadmin/static/js/SchemaView/SchemaDialogView.jsx, web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js
Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves and closes the dialog after a successful save. Escape calls the current close callback when the event and modal conditions allow it.
SQL Editor Line Duplication
web/pgadmin/static/js/components/ReactCodeMirror/components/Editor.jsx, web/regression/javascript/components/CodeMirrorCustomEditor.spec.js, docs/en_US/keyboard_shortcuts.rst
Mod-Shift-d duplicates the current line or selected lines through CodeMirror’s copyLineDown command. The shortcut table documents the binding.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant KeyboardEvent
  participant bindRightPanel
  participant DockLayout
  participant _focusTab
  KeyboardEvent->>bindRightPanel: Tab navigation shortcut
  bindRightPanel->>DockLayout: Find eligible active workspace tabs
  bindRightPanel->>_focusTab: Focus selected tab when multiple tabs qualify
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f9d65

On affected Windows keyboard layouts, typing a bracket with AltGr can switch tabs. Resolve that shortcut conflict before merging, and cover the dialog’s inner-control Escape behavior.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes implement the keyboard requirements for [#7232] through outermost workspace-tab selection, nested-layout filtering, updated bracket shortcuts, and regression tests. They implement [#3834] … Implement keyboard-operable Save and Do not save or equivalent choices in the query-window unsaved-changes confirmation for [#5196]. Add automated coverage for the keyboard actions and for the confirmation result.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 5 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed preference registration and shortcut documentation support [#7232]. The editor keymap and tests support [#3834]. The dialog handler and tests support [#7167] and [#5691]. No demonstrated u…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: tab switching, editor line duplication, and dialog Enter/Escape shortcuts.
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The changes implement the keyboard requirements for [#7232] through outermost workspace-tab selection, nested-layout filtering, updated bracket shortcuts, and regression tests. They implement [#3834] with CodeMirror Mod-Shift-d and tests for a line and a multiline selection. SchemaDialogView implements Ctrl/Cmd+Enter save-and-close and guarded Escape handling for [#7167] and [#5691], with regression tests. The reviewed changes do not establish keyboard choices for the unsaved-changes confirmation shown when closing a query window, which is the coding requirement in [#5196].

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Pull request overview

This PR improves keyboard navigation across pgAdmin’s main workspace tabs, SQL editor (CodeMirror), and SchemaView-based dialogs, and updates documentation/release notes accordingly.

Changes:

  • Fixes main tab switching shortcuts so they work even when focus is inside nested tools/iframes, and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set.
  • Adds SQL editor shortcut Mod+Shift+D to duplicate the current line/selection.
  • Adds dialog/panel shortcuts: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to trigger Save, and Escape to Close (for dockable panel dialogs).

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web/pgadmin/static/js/SchemaView/SchemaDialogView.jsx Add keydown handling for Ctrl/Cmd+Enter (save) and Escape (close) in SchemaView dialogs.
web/pgadmin/static/js/components/ReactCodeMirror/components/Editor.jsx Add CodeMirror keybinding for duplicating current line/selection.
web/pgadmin/browser/static/js/keyboard.js Improve main workspace tab switching by finding the active workspace tab independent of focus and limiting cycling to the active tab-set.
web/pgadmin/browser/register_browser_preferences.py Update default tab-switch shortcuts and correct bracket key codes.
docs/en_US/release_notes_9_16.rst Document the new shortcuts and the tab-switch fix in 9.16 release notes.
docs/en_US/keyboard_shortcuts.rst Update shortcut documentation for new defaults and editor duplicate-line shortcut.

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Two correctness issues to address:

  1. SchemaDialogView.jsx — onKeyDown={onKeyDown} is attached to <StyledBox> inside the useMemo(() => …, [schema._id, viewHelperProps.mode, resetKey]) block, and onKeyDown is not in the deps array. The handler closes over props.onClose, so on a parent re-render that supplies a new onClose, Escape will call the stale callback. Either move <StyledBox onKeyDown={…}> outside the useMemo (recommended — only the children need memoization), or add onKeyDown to the deps.
  2. keyboard.js bindRightPanel — the new selector rootDock.querySelectorAll('.dock-tab.dock-tab-active .dock-tab-btn') matches inner DockLayouts inside SQL Editor / ERD / Debugger too. The only filter is !tab.id.includes('id-object-explorer'), which doesn't exclude rc-dock-tab-btn-id-query, id-dataoutput, id-messages etc., so the shortcut can still navigate inner tabs instead of workspace tabs — i.e. the bug this PR claims to fix is only partially solved. Restrict to the top-level dock (e.g. via tab.closest('.dock-layout') === topDockLayout) or use the LayoutDocker API directly.

Minor: the key_code default change for tabbed_panel_backward / tabbed_panel_forward (91/93 → 219/221) has no DB migration, so existing users on the old saved default keep the old behavior. Consistent with prior precedent but worth a one-time migration for the affected pair.

No new tests added for onKeyDown, copyLineDown, or the panel-navigation flow.

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- Around line 68-101: Update the Ctrl/Cmd+Enter handler in SchemaDialogView so
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@asheshv Both correctness issues were already fixed on the branch, in commit 1aaa9aa ("Fix the stale Escape handler and pin the tab selection with tests"), with regression coverage added:

  1. SchemaDialogView.jsx: the wrapper carrying onKeyDown is no longer inside the useMemo; only the dialog body (the children) is memoized now, so the handler always closes over the current onClose/onSaveClick rather than whatever was captured when the memo deps last changed, per your recommendation. SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js has a new test that re-renders with a fresh onClose and asserts Escape calls the current one, not the first.

  2. keyboard.js bindRightPanel: the tab search is now scoped to the outermost dock (rootDock.querySelector('.dock-layout')), and both the active-tab search and the panel's tab list are filtered with tab.closest('.dock-layout') === topDockLayout, so a nested DockLayout's tabs (SQL Editor, ERD, Debugger) can no longer be picked up. keyboard_navigation_spec.js covers this, including the case where the nested layout's tabs come first in the DOM order.

I rebased onto current upstream/master (clean, no conflicts), then reran the targeted Jest suite and eslint: 2 suites, 7 tests, all green.

On the minor point: the key_code default migration for tabbed_panel_backward/forward is a real gap, but I'm deferring it rather than bundling a one-time settings migration into this PR. Preference.get() only falls back to the registered default when there's no saved row, so it only affects users who never customised these two shortcuts; anyone who did keeps their own value. I'll track the migration separately rather than rush it in here.

Ready for another look.

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@asheshv Following up on the last point of your review, about tests: the onKeyDown handler and the panel-navigation flow were already covered by SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js and keyboard_navigation_spec.js, and 8be8fa4 now adds copyLineDown coverage to CodeMirrorCustomEditor.spec.js, which drives Mod-Shift-D through a real editor for both a single line and a multi-line selection (both tests fail if the binding is removed). The branch is also rebased onto current master.

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- Around line 188-190: Update the workspace shortcut handlers to ignore events
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web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js (1)

95-128: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover Escape consumed by the SchemaView dropdown.

SchemaView renders select fields with react-select. Its Escape handler closes an open menu and then calls event.preventDefault(). The event still bubbles to SchemaDialogView.

The current tests dispatch Escape on the dialog root, so an implementation that ignores defaultPrevented would pass them while closing the dialog after the dropdown handles Escape.

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+  it('does not close when an inner control consumes Escape', async () => {
+    const onClose = jest.fn();
+    const ctrl = await renderDialog(
+      onClose,
+      jest.fn(() => Promise.resolve()),
+      new MinimalSchema()
+    );
+    const control = ctrl.container.querySelector('[name="field1"]');
+    control.addEventListener('keydown', event => event.preventDefault(), {once: true});
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      fireEvent.keyDown(control, {key: 'Escape'});
+    });
+
+    expect(onClose).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
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In `@web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js` around
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- Fix the main "tabbed panel forward/backward" shortcut not switching the
  workspace tabs when keyboard focus is inside a tool (SQL editor, PSQL
  terminal, ERD or Schema Diff). bindRightPanel now locates the active
  workspace tab via rc-dock's dock-tab-active class, independent of focus,
  and restricts cycling to the workspace tab-set. The default shortcut is
  changed to Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+] / [ so it no longer collides with the Query
  Tool's inner-panel navigation (Alt+Shift+] / [) and does not emit glyphs
  on macOS; the bogus key codes (Meta/ContextMenu) are corrected to the
  bracket key codes.
- Add Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D to duplicate the current line or selection in the
  SQL editor.
- Add Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to save and close object/utility dialogs (including the
  Query Tool sort/filter dialog), and Escape to close them - dialogs rendered
  as dockable panels (Properties, Backup, etc.) previously had neither. The
  Escape handler is scoped to panel dialogs (skips MUI modals, which already
  close on Escape) and yields to inner controls that handle Escape first.

Closes pgadmin-org#7232
Closes pgadmin-org#3834
Closes pgadmin-org#7167
Closes pgadmin-org#5691
Closes pgadmin-org#5196
The Escape and Ctrl+Enter handler was attached to the memoized element, so
it captured whichever props.onClose and onSaveClick existed when the memo
deps last changed. Any parent re-render supplying a new onClose, which is
the normal case where it is defined inline, left Escape calling the stale
one. Only the dialog body is memoized now; the wrapper carrying the
handler is created on every render, which is what the review recommended
and costs nothing since the body is what is expensive.

For the tab navigation I could not reproduce the reported failure. With
rc-dock's DOM as it is rendered, a panel's tab buttons precede the nested
DockLayout inside its own tab pane, so the search for "the active tab that
is not the object explorer" finds the workspace tab before it reaches the
SQL editor's Data Output tab, and the existing .dock-panel filter then
keeps the cycling within the workspace. What is true is that this only
holds by accident of document order. The search is now confined to the
outermost dock layout, so a tool's tabs cannot take part however rc-dock
chooses to order its panels, and the test builds exactly that case: with
the nested layout placed first, the previous code cycled Data Output and
Messages instead of the workspace tabs.

Both fixes have tests that fail without them:
web/regression/javascript/SchemaView/SchemaDialogViewKeyboard.spec.js
holds the callback case, keeping the same schema instance so nothing
invalidates the memo, and
web/regression/javascript/browser/keyboard_navigation_spec.js covers the
tab selection, including the object explorer being excluded and the case
where no workspace tabs exist.

On the missing migration for the tabbed_panel_backward/forward defaults:
Preference.get() falls back to the registered default whenever the user
has no saved row, so anyone who has not customised these shortcuts picks
up Ctrl+Alt+[ and ] with no migration at all. Anyone who has saved a value
keeps it, which is the behaviour I would want: silently rewriting a
shortcut somebody chose deliberately is worse than leaving it alone.
onSaveClick() only ever called props.onSave; nothing subsequently closed
the dialog, so the shortcut saved but left the panel open despite the
inline comment (and issue pgadmin-org#7167) saying it should save and close.

onSaveClick now takes an explicit closeOnSave flag, set only by the
Ctrl/Cmd+Enter handler, and calls props.onClose once the save promise
resolves. The Save button's onClick still passes its click event as the
first argument, which is never === true, so a plain Save click keeps its
existing per-dialog behaviour (e.g. object properties dialogs staying
open).

Adds a test that types a change and confirms both onSave and onClose
fire on Ctrl/Cmd+Enter; the existing tests only covered Escape.
Covers both the single-line case and a multi-line selection, as asked for
in review.
The Save button is disabled during a save, but the shortcut calls
onSaveClick directly, so a second press could send the same changes
again and close the dialog twice.
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Rebased onto current upstream/master and added the test CodeRabbit suggested in its nitpick (cedf2e3): an inner control that calls preventDefault on Escape now leaves the dialog open, and the test fails if the defaultPrevented guard is removed.

I've also dropped Closes #5196 from the description: this PR doesn't change the query window's unsaved-changes confirmation (ConfirmSaveContent), so the claim that it made that dialog keyboard-operable wasn't accurate, and the issue was already closed as not planned.

The AltGr thread stays open pending a decision on the tab-switch default.

On Windows, AltGr is reported as Ctrl+Alt, so a Ctrl+Alt shortcut on a
character key collides with whatever AltGr types on that key in some layout:
Ctrl+Alt+[ is the ß key on a German layout, where AltGr+ß types a backslash,
and hotkeys.filter lets the tab shortcuts fire in the SQL editor and PSQL
terminal. Page Up and Page Down produce no character on any layout, echo the
Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown tab switching of browsers and editors without taking it
over, and are bound elsewhere only without modifiers or with Shift.

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