Potential Discord T.A.Y.N.E. (Quick Switcher) search integration and other related changes
tl;dr:
I want same channel message search integration within T.A.Y.N.E. (Discord's form of searching servers and channels). I also want T.A.Y.N.E.'s key bind to be set to something that can be easily reached with one hand (Like Control + S).

For those who don't know, this is T.A.Y.N.E.
The Deep Dive
As someone who is a big fan of things like Spotlight for macOS and PowerToys Run for Windows I feel like T.A.Y.N.E. could follow in its footsteps and get a bunch of huge upgrades.

Just look at that beast.
When it comes to macOS and Windows their "Spotlights" can do things like run programs. T.A.Y.N.E.'s equivalent would be navigating servers/channels/etc. But "Spotlights" can do other things like find files and documents. Which is why I propose integrated message searching and T.A.Y.N.E. together. When working together, you can have a powerful all in one search tool that can both take you places, and find things where you already are.
So I have some suggestions on how this could be implemented.
- Since programs are much less common than both servers and channels combined, one of the methods of combining both search and navigation could be by using another prefix specifically for looking up messages. This would only have to be used at the beginning of a search and can then include other filters like in: and from:. The downside would be that searching would take an extra step and people who are used to using Spotlight and its alternatives would have muscle memory working in the opposite direction.
- A second option would to separate the search results into either rows or columns (I think columns would work better personally). Separation would allow someone to easily pick and choose whether or not to search for navigation or for finding text in a server/channel. This could work, although it'd definitely cut down on real estate used for longer names/being able to fit in messages.
With that out of the way I wanted to talk about the second part of the subject name, the "other related changes". What I essentially want is to just have the shortcut for T.A.Y.N.E. be easily reachable with one hand, that hand being specifically the left hand. The left hand is used in many crucial shortcuts such as Control + A (Select all) and Control + Z (Undo). Control + K is a somewhat unwieldy key bind, as it either requires both hands or the right hand to use. Using both or just the right hand to perform a shortcut is unnatural when it comes to most shortcuts and does not flow very well in muscle memory. Making it easier to activate T.A.Y.N.E. would also encourage its use and therefore have more merit.
I suggest using something like Control + S since Discord does not contain a save function, and it would still be possible to use if message searches wasn't integrated. Control + F could also be used, but this requires removing the shortcut for the Find command, which is used for the current method of searching messages.
With that I hope you consider adding my wanted changes, thank you very much.
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