Textpad should change its default keystroke shortcuts for within-document text searches to norms most people are now accustomed to. Currently, F5 starts a text search and Ctrl+F is "find again". This should be changed to Ctrl+F as the initial Find shortcut, with Ctrl+G as "find again". This would make TextPad Find identical to FireFox's Find. Ctrl+F as the Find kickoff is used in FireFox, MS Word and MS Internet Explorer, as well as most other text intensive apps. It's annoying to have to continually remember "Oh yeah, TextPad uses F5 for Find".
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Different key combos for within-document text search
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ben_josephs
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I respectfully disagree.
The first reason is that you already have control over the keystrokes via Configure, Preferences, Keyboard. Search is the Category, SearchFind and SearchFindNext are the keys you'd like to alter the behaviour of.
The second thought is that while they are common for a browser, ctrl-G is usually a GOTO X command in other editors/environments. You can also highlight what you are looking for and ctrl-F will pick it up (unless you had .* as your previous search criteria) and run with it.
I only get in trouble with F5 and that's when I jump into Visual Studio.
Dagnabbit, don't run, not yet!
[edit]Dang you ben_josephs for beating me to the punch[/edit]
The first reason is that you already have control over the keystrokes via Configure, Preferences, Keyboard. Search is the Category, SearchFind and SearchFindNext are the keys you'd like to alter the behaviour of.
The second thought is that while they are common for a browser, ctrl-G is usually a GOTO X command in other editors/environments. You can also highlight what you are looking for and ctrl-F will pick it up (unless you had .* as your previous search criteria) and run with it.
I only get in trouble with F5 and that's when I jump into Visual Studio.
Dagnabbit, don't run, not yet![edit]Dang you ben_josephs for beating me to the punch[/edit]
I choose to fight with a sack of angry cats.
ben_josephs wrote:Configuration | Preferences... | Keyboard | Search
Categories: Search
Commands: SearchFind and SearchFindNext.
talleyrand wrote:... you already have control over the keystrokes via Configure, Preferences, Keyboard. Search is the Category, SearchFind and SearchFindNext are the keys you'd like to alter the behaviour of.
Perhaps I should have used boldface, like so: Textpad should change its default keystroke shortcuts...
I could live without ctrl-G for SearchFindNext, but ctrl-F should certainly be SearchFind. While they're at it they should emulate Firefox's across-the-window-bottom popup search input-- so much more convenient.talleyrand wrote:The second thought is that while they are common for a browser, ctrl-G is usually a GOTO X command in other editors/environments.
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