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🐞 Open Quickly doesn't exactly 'close'

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Open Quickly sequence described: search, navigate or move the cursor, close the modal, and reopen it. Inspect the Open Quickly implementation responsible for modal removal, cached queries, selected items, search results, and preview resources. Done means closing tears down results and releases preview resources while reopening preserves the query and recomputes the results.

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Description

bug
Description

Open Quickly is not exactly 'closed' when its modal is removed. The expected behavior is for it to be reopened with its last search query, but having its search results remain in the background may not be intentional. For example, the resources used to load the previews are not released.

It seems xcode recomputes the query when Open Quickly is reopened. It may just be the enter animation but since the selected list item is reset when reopening, I think it recomputes.

To Reproduce
  1. cmd shift o to show Open Quickly.
  2. Enter a search term.
  3. You can also move down the list and move the text cursor to the left.
  4. Press escape or click elsewhere to close the Open Quickly modal
  5. reopen Open Quickly
Expected Behavior

Open quickly should teardown (but cache the query) when closed, and then recompute the results when opened again.

Version Information

CodeEdit: 0.2.0-dev (39)
macOS: 14.5
Xcode: 15.4

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Screenshots

CodeEdit:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ad94c0b-cb4a-417a-b85c-531221113b53

Xcode:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c33528da-881b-46a5-a888-bff48b37a97e

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