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Unified Quick Access: Restore Prefix Switching With > (Commands) and < (Sessions) #292202

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Summary

Unified Quick Access should preserve the legacy prefix behavior, and consistently support both > (Commands) and < (Sessions) for quick mode switching.

Problem

In legacy Quick Access, typing > immediately switched to Commands. In Unified Quick Access this no longer works reliably, and there’s no symmetric < behavior for Sessions.

Expected Behavior

  • Typing > switches to Commands
  • Typing < switches to Sessions
  • Removing the leading prefix returns to Files
  • Input should normalize to a single prefix character (> or <)

Why this matters

Prefix switching is a fast, established keyboard workflow. Restoring it (and making it symmetric) keeps Unified Quick Access consistent and efficient.

Notes

This matches legacy Quick Access behavior for > and extends it consistently with < for Sessions.

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