🎨 Palette: Actionable Escape-to-Clear Shortcut

[AhmmedSamier]

💡 What: Added an Escape key handler to the search input in the search webview that clears the input text and resets all active scopes and filters back to their global defaults.
🎯 Why: Users intuitively expect the Escape key to clear a search input and reset the search context, especially when multiple filters are active. Lacking this native behavior adds friction.
📸 Before/After: Before, pressing Escape while focused on the search input did nothing. Now, pressing Escape clears the input, resets the search scope to 'Everything', and focuses the input. If the input is already empty, the event passes through.
♿ Accessibility: Improves keyboard navigation by providing a standard, universally recognized shortcut to quickly recover from a filtered or typed state without relying on mouse clicks or manual text deletion.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an Escape-key shortcut to clear search queries and reset active filters.
  • Automatically refreshes results, restores the default search scope, refocuses the search field, and displays a confirmation message.

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📥 Commits

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• .jules/palette.md
• vscode-extension/src/webviews/search-view.html

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The search webview now clears non-empty queries and resets scopes when Escape is pressed, refreshes results, refocuses the input, and announces the reset. Palette guidance documents this behavior.

Changes

Search clearing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Escape-to-clear interaction vscode-extension/src/webviews/search-view.html, .jules/palette.md	The search handler clears the query, resets scopes to everything, updates the scope UI, reruns the search, refocuses the input, and displays a status message. Palette guidance documents the shortcut.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#498: Adds related clear-search and scope-reset behavior through the results UI.
• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#510: Updates scope-button state handling for clear/reset flows.
• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#515: Changes empty-query handling reached after the new blank search.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding an Escape-to-clear shortcut for the search input.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Reset filters even when the query is empty

When a scope is active with no remaining text (for example, clicking the Modified/Open scope on an empty input or entering /m , which gets stripped to an empty value), searchInput.value is '', so this Escape handler falls through and leaves currentScope, userScope, and the active scope button unchanged. That makes the new shortcut unable to recover from a filtered-empty state; please treat a non-default scope as something Escape should clear while still passing through only when the input is already empty and the scope is already global.

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