The search field in Add Symbol menu is powerful, but the user has to know symbol’s name. These are not always intutive and there may be variants that don’t appear in search results. So quite often, it’s necessary to manually find a specific library in the list. However, the list is long, over 220 libraries in KiCAD 8. Is there some way to quickly jump to a library starting with a specific letter or string? For example, in Total Commander, when you hold Alt key and type a string, it jumps to a file name that’s closest match. I tested all key combinations I could think of in the Add Symbol menu, but nothing worked. And my Google searches came up empty, too.
Type in the letter “c” and up comes the below plus more if you scroll down::
Each item, when highlighted, shows the symbol on the right. What more do you want?
Currently there is no way to jump to libraries. You could upvote this gitlab issue, which requests a similar feature: Symbol Chooser: keypress to seek next line matching first character (#16793) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
Until that feature is implemented you could ease the pain if you clearing up your symbol table with the symbol libraries (same goes for footprint libraries). For instance disabling all the (not used, most people work with just 1 processor family) microcontrollers. If you do this carefully you could reduce the number of libraries to ~50…60
Thanks, that’s what I was looking for. It makes sense to program it universal for all such menus (not only Add Symbol), that’s why I didn’t find that request.