Added shortcut to focus all search tags apart from the top nav search

Updated CHANGELOG

Added docs for filter shortcut

Moved CHANGELOG entry

Added phils fixes

Fixed search form submitting with empty input

Added review fixes

Readability and selector perf fix

CHANGELOG

@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ v 8.9.0
   - Add rake task 'gitlab:db:configure' for conditionally seeding or migrating the database
   - Changed the Slack build message to use the singular duration if necessary (Aran Koning)
   - Fix race condition on merge when build succeeds
+  - Added shortcut to focus filter search fields and added documentation #18120
   - Links from a wiki page to other wiki pages should be rewritten as expected
   - Add option to project to only allow merge requests to be merged if the build succeeds (Rui Santos)
   - Added navigation shortcuts to the project pipelines, milestones, builds and forks page. !4393

app/assets/javascripts/issuable.js.coffee

@@ -32,13 +32,11 @@ issuable_created = false
           $search = $('#issue_search')
           $form = $('.js-filter-form')
           $input = $("input[name='#{$search.attr('name')}']", $form)
-
           if $input.length is 0
             $form.append "<input type='hidden' name='#{$search.attr('name')}' value='#{_.escape($search.val())}'/>"
           else
             $input.val $search.val()
-
-          Issuable.filterResults $form
+          Issuable.filterResults $form if $search.val() isnt ''
         , 500)
 
   initLabelFilterRemove: ->

app/assets/javascripts/projects_list.js.coffee

@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@
     this.initPagination()
 
   initSearch: ->
-    @timer = null
-    $(".projects-list-filter").on('keyup', ->
-      clearTimeout(@timer)
-      @timer = setTimeout(ProjectsList.filterResults, 500)
-    )
+    projectsListFilter = $('.projects-list-filter')
+    projectsListFilter.on 'keyup', (e) =>
+      clearTimeout(@timer) if @timer
+      @timer = setTimeout(ProjectsList.filterResults, 500) if projectsListFilter.val() isnt ''
 
-  filterResults: =>
+  filterResults: ->
     $('.projects-list-holder').fadeTo(250, 0.5)
 
     form = null

app/assets/javascripts/shortcuts.js.coffee

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ class @Shortcuts
     Mousetrap.reset() if not skipResetBindings
     Mousetrap.bind('?', @onToggleHelp)
     Mousetrap.bind('s', Shortcuts.focusSearch)
+    Mousetrap.bind 'f', @focusFilter
     Mousetrap.bind(['ctrl+shift+p', 'command+shift+p'], @toggleMarkdownPreview)
     Mousetrap.bind('t', -> Turbolinks.visit(findFileURL)) if findFileURL?
 
@@ -32,10 +33,15 @@ class @Shortcuts
           $('.js-more-help-button').remove()
     )
 
+  focusFilter: (e) ->
+    $('input[type=search]', '.nav-controls .block-controls').focus()
+    e.preventDefault()
+
   @focusSearch: (e) ->
     $('#search').focus()
     e.preventDefault()
 
+
 $(document).on 'click.more_help', '.js-more-help-button', (e) ->
   $(@).remove()
   $('.hidden-shortcut').show()

app/views/help/_shortcuts.html.haml

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
                 %td.shortcut
                   .key s
                 %td Focus Search
+              %tr
+                %td.shortcut
+                  .key f
+                %td Focus Filter
               %tr
                 %td.shortcut
                   .key ?