[Geany-Devel] Search bar

[Steven Blatnick]

On 11/29/2012 06:53 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 30 November 2012 05:19, Steven Blatnick <steve8track at 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:
>>
>> 1. 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.
I did the same thing :-)
>
>> 2. Type a word.
>> 3. 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.
>
>> 4. 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.
>
>> 5. 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.
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.
Good point.  I didn't think of it that way.  Personally, I think it 
still seems a little wonky that it doesn't focus when you hit enter.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
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