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Pressing r does not focus on the comment textarea in MRs/Issues/Epics for the first time

Summary

Pressing r shortcut (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#issues) on issuables used to take users to start writing comment directly. Now, you'd have to click once on the textarea, then you can start pressing r again.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open any issue/MR/epic
  2. Press r
  3. Nothing would happen (bug)
  4. Click on the comment's textarea
  5. Press r again
  6. The textarea will be focused (intended)

What is the current bug behavior?

Pressing r does not focus on the comment's textarea on the first try.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Pressing r should focus on the comment's textarea on the first try.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Screen_Recording_2023-03-27_at_12.53.15_PM

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Possible fixes

Edited by Marco Gregorius