In textpad, pressing CTRL+F finds whatever text you've got in the find dialog box. However, in pretty much every other text editing program I've used (like notepad), pressing CTRL+F will bring up the dialog box, and let you perform the actual search when you've enterd your query.
I realize the author probably made the decision to use this concatenated process of searching to help speed things up, but for me, it's more work than it shoudl be, for two reasons. Firstly, whenever I want to perform a new search with new search criteria, there's no keyboard shortcut to really do that (I have to click on the menu with my mouse to bring the actual dialog box up). Second, it breaks the paradigm I have in my head about using CTRL-F for bringing up a search dialog box, because that's the way it is in most other apps.
Again, I understand that the author probably coded it this way intentionally, so I'm not asking him to remove the feature. However, would it be too much to ask for a checkbox in the preferences which allows you to toggle between textpad's mode and standard mode?
Thank you.
"Find" enhancement
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ben_josephs
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The keyboard shortcut you're missing is F5.
Almost all of TextPad's shortcuts are configurable. If you want to change the shortcuts for searching, do this:
In Configure | Preferences select Keyboard.
In Categories select Search.
In Commands select SearchFind, change its shortcut key and Assign it.
In Commands select SearchFindNext, change its shortcut key and Assign it.
Almost all of TextPad's shortcuts are configurable. If you want to change the shortcuts for searching, do this:
In Configure | Preferences select Keyboard.
In Categories select Search.
In Commands select SearchFind, change its shortcut key and Assign it.
In Commands select SearchFindNext, change its shortcut key and Assign it.