On 30 November 2012 05:19, Steven Blatnick steve8track@yahoo.com wrote:
I noticed if I do a search from the toolbar and press return, it finds the word, but focus remains in the search bar. Isn't there a way to have it automatically set the focus to the text and then I can use keyboard shortcuts to go from the current instance to the next/prev.
I think this would be more intuitive:
- Keyboard shortcut to the search toolbar.
"Switch to searchbar", just add your favourite keybinding, I actually re-defined <ctrl>f to do this not the dialog.
- Type a word.
- Press enter and get taken to the first word with the focus on it.
The toolbar search searches as you type, so it will highlight the first match after the current cursor position, you don't need to press enter, and in fact enter moves to the next match. You do need to switch focus the first time if you are going to do some editing at the match point.
- Use other shortcuts to go from next/previous
The normal next/previous shortcuts apply, and remain in the editor window, so the focus switch is first fime only.
- Use the keyboard shortcut again to return to the toolbar to change the
search term.
See 1. above
I did things this way all the time before. In geany, it looks like I have to use another shortcut in between?
Well, you want to press enter to get from the searchbar to the edit window, just use the switch focus instead, as I said the search happens as you type, so you are already at the right position.
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What do you guys think?
No change needed to give the equivalent of your workflow, except that the keybinding to switch to the editor isn't enter.
Cheers Lex
Thanks,
Steve
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