jupyter / jupyter/notebook

CTRL+F to select cells (through words in the cells) doesn't work anymore

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Description

Hi,

I'm a fan of using the keyboard to move around in a notebook and in the past versions, if I did CTRL+F and wrote 'plt.scatter' then pressed Escape, the first cell with 'plt.scatter' would be selected and I could edit it without having to click on it. As of now (just updated through Anaconda), Jupyter doesn't allow this anymore and the cell I had selected before the search is still selected. It was also my way to scroll quickly to parts of a long notebook without using the mouse.

Is there something I can do to get this functionality again?

Thanks

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Research direction

Reproduce the notebook UI behavior by searching for “plt.scatter” with Ctrl+F and pressing Escape. Trace the existing search and cell-selection entry points, then confirm that the matching cell is selected and editable and that search still supports navigation through a long notebook.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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