# Make "Show Hook window" shortcut a show/hide toggle
**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582
**Category:** Hookmark Feature Requests
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582 "2019-07-21T18:06:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@quorm](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/quorm)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582/1 "2019-07-21T18:06:49Z")
The **Show Hook window** shortcut (default ⇧⌘␣) behaves differently than most similar shortcuts. With Spotlight, OmniFocus, Alfred, and others, the “show …” shortcut is a toggle. Press the shortcut once, the entry window appears. Press again, the entry window disappears. With Hook, to dismiss the Hook window we have to press ⎋ (escape). For convenience, it would be useful if Hook adopted the “normal” toggling behavior for such shortcuts.
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582/2 "2019-07-21T18:28:14Z")
thanks for the tip, @quorm . I guess I was biased by my UNIX days (SunOS and Solaris) towards the escape key. (And LaunchBar which I use doesn’t seem to go away that way).
Consider it added to our todo list.
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### Author:  [@RobTrew](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/RobTrew)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582/3 "2019-07-22T11:39:46Z")
‘Toggle all the things’ seems a good cognitive principle – often gets close to halving the learning and processing costs 🙂
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### Author:  [@stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stevelw)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582/4 "2019-07-22T18:09:35Z")
> [@LucB](#):
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> I guess I was biased by my UNIX days (SunOS and Solaris) towards the escape key.
The key is so awkwardly placed though. I know some people remap their keyboards just to make TAB = Escape
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/make-show-hook-window-shortcut-a-show-hide-toggle/582/5 "2019-09-07T08:02:42Z")
> [@quorm](#):
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> . Press again, the entry window disappears. With Hook, to dismiss the Hook window we have to press ⎋ (escape). For convenience, it would be useful if Hook adopted the “normal” toggling behavior for such shortcuts.
Thanks again, @quorm. This is now available in [Hook 1.2 which we’ve just published](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-version-1-2-2682-is-now-available/777)