Keep shortcuts working after a checkbox is clicked

Ticking "select all" disabled every keyboard shortcut until the reader clicked
somewhere else (#260). Same for the per-message checkboxes, so selecting a few
messages and pressing e to archive them did nothing.

The guard that stops "a" archiving while you are typing into the search box
tested `tagName === "INPUT"`. That is also true of a checkbox, and a checkbox
keeps focus after a click -- correctly, since space should toggle it again.
So the guard was suppressing shortcuts for an element that swallows no
keystroke: space is handled by the browser before this listener runs.

The question is not "is this an input" but "does this input take text", which
is what isTextEntry now asks. A <select> counts, in the sense that matters
here: typing a letter jumps to the option starting with it, and a shortcut
would steal that.

Thirteen checkboxes and seven file inputs across the app were affected, not
just the one reported.

The regression test was checked against the old guard first: it fails there
and passes here, which is the only thing that makes it a regression test.
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@@ -54,9 +54,7 @@ class Keyboard {
// Let modal dialogs and popovers handle their own keys (Escape, arrows, ...).
if (document.querySelector(".dialog-backdrop, .popover")) return;
const target = e.target as HTMLElement | null;
const inInput =
!!target &&
(target.tagName === "INPUT" || target.tagName === "TEXTAREA" || target.tagName === "SELECT" || target.isContentEditable);
const inInput = isTextEntry(target);
const combo = comboOf(e);
if (!combo) return;
@@ -102,6 +100,38 @@ class Keyboard {
}
}
/**
* Is the focused element somewhere the reader is typing?
*
* This guard exists so that pressing "a" in the search box searches for "a"
* rather than archiving the message behind it. The test used to be
* `tagName === "INPUT"`, which is true of a checkbox — and a checkbox keeps
* focus after you click it, so ticking "select all" silently disabled every
* shortcut until the reader clicked somewhere else (#260). Nothing about a
* checkbox swallows a keystroke: space toggles it and the browser handles
* that before this listener ever runs.
*
* So the question is not "is this an input" but "does this input take text".
* A `<select>` does, in the sense that matters here: typing a letter jumps to
* the option beginning with it, which a shortcut would steal.
*/
const TEXT_ENTRY_TYPES = new Set([
"text", "search", "email", "url", "tel", "password", "number",
"date", "datetime-local", "month", "time", "week",
]);
export function isTextEntry(el: Element | null): boolean {
if (!el) return false;
const node = el as HTMLElement;
if (node.isContentEditable) return true;
const tag = node.tagName;
if (tag === "TEXTAREA" || tag === "SELECT") return true;
if (tag !== "INPUT") return false;
// An <input> with no type attribute is a text field.
const type = (node as HTMLInputElement).type?.toLowerCase() || "text";
return TEXT_ENTRY_TYPES.has(type);
}
const isMac = typeof navigator !== "undefined" && /Mac|iPhone|iPad/.test(navigator.platform);
export function comboOf(e: KeyboardEvent): string | null {