Did Ventura break control+n in Spotlight for everyone or just me?

[hello_op_i_love_you]

Hi all. As many of you know control+n and control+p works like down arrow and up arrow on macOS. I use these bindings as they're easier to reach than the arrow keys.

After updating to Ventura, in Spotlight I can no longer move down from the text input to the search results by pressing control+n? This used to work. More specifically, if if press cmd+space and type something, then control+n does nothing. Down arrow, though, still navigates to the search results, and once the search results are focused control+n/control+p does work.

I can't find anything about this by searching, so I'm wondering if this is broken for everyone or just me?

 

[fisherking]

never knew that worked in spotlight! but not working here now (also, command-R will reveal an item in spotlight in it's enclosing folder)

 

[hello_op_i_love_you]

Thanks a lot for the reply @fisherking. That's unfortunate, I'm sad to see that standard macOS hotkeys are no longer supported by Spotlight. But now I at least know that it's not just something on my machine. Hopefully it'll get fixed in an update.

 

[fisherking]

Thanks a lot for the reply @fisherking. That's unfortunate, I'm sad to see that standard macOS hotkeys are no longer supported by Spotlight. But now I at least know that it's not just something on my machine. Hopefully it'll get fixed in an update.

i never used those key commands in spotlight (i find the arrows easiest, they're right next to each other).

so might be good if some others chimed in about this...

 

[WilliApple]

They replaced Control + N and Control + P with Space.

Just go press the arrow keys to the file you want to preview, and press Space.

 

[fisherking]

They replaced Control + N and Control + P with Space.

Just go press the arrow keys to the file you want to preview, and press Space.

huh? space bar (as always) gives you a quicklook of what's highlighted; it does not replace key commands to scroll thru items found in spotlight...

 

[a2rael]

Spotlight stopped working entirely for me w 13.0.1 update . . . anyone else? Help?

 

[hello_op_i_love_you]

I've submitted a bug report through Feedback Assistant. I hope it gets fixed

 

[escapevelocity]

I noticed this today on Ventura 13.4 (22F66) after pairing an old Magic Keyboard (not sure if it's related). Like others, I use Control+N/P to quickly move up and down, with Caps Lock remapped to Control.

Some good news.

If you press Tab first, then Control+N/P continues to work as expected. Tab switches the focus to the results.

It's an extra keystroke, but some semblance of order in the universe is restored 😆. Hope this helps!