> macOS has had the ability to search menus for what seems like a decade.
Wow, TIL. Talk about a hidden feature.
So it turns out it's under the "Help" menu, and it just says "Search". I had always assumed that this searched help topics, not menus.
But it's also pretty miminal, seemingly without support for synonyms or features inside of dialog boxes -- e.g. if you type "pref" it won't find "Settings". It also doesn't have a keyboard shortcut to trigger it (like Docs).
So I think there's still a long way to go to make it a central UX feature.
Wow, TIL. Talk about a hidden feature.
So it turns out it's under the "Help" menu, and it just says "Search". I had always assumed that this searched help topics, not menus.
But it's also pretty miminal, seemingly without support for synonyms or features inside of dialog boxes -- e.g. if you type "pref" it won't find "Settings". It also doesn't have a keyboard shortcut to trigger it (like Docs).
So I think there's still a long way to go to make it a central UX feature.