Search
Loach has two complementary search surfaces: a global palette for jumping anywhere in the app, and a browser-style finder for the chat you are currently looking at.
The global palette
Press Ctrl + K (or click the search pill in the title bar) to open the palette. It cross-searches:
- Chats — by title and by message contents.
- Spaces — by name and description.
- Snippets — by title and body.
An empty query shows recent suggestions across all three. Use the arrow keys to move and Enter to commit. Picking a chat opens it; picking a Space opens its detail view; picking a Snippet starts a fresh chat with the Snippet’s prompt primed in the composer.
Esc clears a non-empty query first, then closes the palette. The palette is suppressed while the lock screen or onboarding wizard owns the window.
Find within a chat
Press Ctrl + F inside a chat to open the in-transcript finder. It works like browser find: type to search, matches highlight inline, and you can step through them with the keyboard.
When you remember “there was a snippet about X” but not where, hit Ctrl + K and start typing — you do not have to switch tabs first. The palette is the fastest path between two places in the app.