[Geany-Users] How to get rid of Find dialog after wrap search

[John Gabriele]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 7:28 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 08:43, John Gabriele <jgabriele at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > If I go to Find (ctrl-F), and find what I'm looking for, I can then hit Esc to make the dialog box go away and get back to editing. But if I reach the bottom of the document, and wrap search and find again, then reach what I was looking for, the Find dialog does not have focus, and hitting Esc does not make it go away.
> >
> > After wrapping a search and finding what I want, how do I then make the Find dialog go away? (Without using the mouse. :) ).
> 
> Set it to autowrap
> https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#search then you don't
> have another dialog stealing the focus.

Ah, great!

> Otherwise I think its just how GTK works, the focus returns to the
> parent when the extra dialog is closed.

Oh, wow. Selecting "Hide the Find dialog" seems to work even better for me. Thank you!

-- John