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When I'm searching google.com and get autocomplete suggestions I use the down keyboard key to choose one.
This causes me to move my hands from the home row and wastes too much time. Is there another keyboard shortcut for choosing a suggestion for which I won't need to move my hands from the home row?
Eyal Levin
Posted 2015-08-03T17:20:27.353
Reputation: 299
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Since from the keyboard's "home row" you just can just access to characters, and those are recognized as input for the search field, I'd say no, you can't choose any suggestion without moving to the arrow keys.
But, in case you use Google Chrome, you could write directly on the address bar, and move between the suggestions using the TAB key, which would be just extending your little finger.
Hewbot
Posted 2015-08-03T17:20:27.353
Reputation: 1 604
Thanks, I use that option on Chrome as well. This issue still applies when I want to continue a previous query, and this happens in the browser window rather than the address bar. – Eyal Levin – 2015-08-04T07:55:15.413
I'll mark this answer as accepted for now. If someone will find a solution I will update it. – Eyal Levin – 2015-08-04T07:57:21.617
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Currently on Ubuntu I'm using AutoKey for mapping Down Key to Ctrl + J and Up Key to Ctrl + K.
I use these mappings to traverse the Google autocomplete results.
Eyal Levin
Posted 2015-08-03T17:20:27.353
Reputation: 299
Google Instant only has a few shortcuts: http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/web/Google-Instant-Search.html If you want to create custom ones that would require separate software and manually mapping something, like AutoHotkey.
– MC10 – 2015-08-03T17:25:05.693