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dbannon

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Re: "Find" could be made better very easily.
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2021, 01:25:48 pm »
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Nevermind that the majority of programs offering such a feature ("Search"/"Continue Search") pretty much all use the "CTRL+F/F3"-Combination (e.g. pretty much everything from Microsoft, Notepad++ and others)

Actually, some use ctrl-g and shift-ctrl-g, thats the declared way on Mac and a Pluma does it too. Firefox uses both F3 and ctrl-G and I have just made my app do the same, prompted by this conversation !

edit : ctrl-G because G is next to F on most keyboards ?

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Re: "Find" could be made better very easily.
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2021, 01:33:09 pm »
Actually, some use ctrl-g and shift-ctrl-g, thats the declared way on Mac and a Pluma does it too. Firefox uses both F3 and ctrl-G and I have just made my app do the same, prompted by this conversation !

On the Mac, it is CMD-F (find) and CMD-G (next) Shift-CMD-G (previous) - not CTRL, even in Firefox ;)

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Re: "Find" could be made better very easily.
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2021, 02:27:52 pm »
Yes Trev. Sigh.
I think of it as the ctrl key as so many key strokes, ctrl-[a, c, v, x...]  map to cmd-[a, c, v, x ...].  My code reflects that mapping.
Thanks for the correction.

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