CTRL+F3 to search next occurrence of "current selection" and SHIFT..
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Description
Hello! o)
Let me quickly ask for some more "Find" related keyboard shortcuts to make life even more easy. I already like the standard CTRL-.. hotkeys so much in "edit", I think the world needs more of these, so.. o)
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Find-Next with F3
Already done, thank you, very nice! o) -
Find-Previous with SHIFT-F3
Still missing, would love to see this, even Notepad does it. o) -
Find-Next-Occurrence CTRL+F3
This is another standard shortcut we need (I guess). CTRL+F3 is used to search for the next occurrence of what is currently selected in a lot of editors (Editplus, VSCode e.g.). Would be nice to see this implemented as well. -
Find-Previous-Occurrence SHIFT+CTRL+F3
Same as above, just search current selection backward, also standard in a lot of editors.
Being able to "find next" or "find previous" occurrence of currently highlighted / selected text is immensely helpful when editing source code or configuration files.
Added 2025-06-21:
Two more issues I noticed:
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CTRL+F with already selected text, needs "double ENTER"
needs you to press ENTER and ENTER again to start searching, expected only 1 ENTER. -
CTRL+F panel does not allow to search reverse
Using ENTER searches forward (expected) using SHIFT+ENTER does not search reverse, also searches forward (unexpected).
Thank you! o)
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Research direction
Start at the editor's Find panel and keyboard-shortcut handling. Check how F3, CTRL+F, and ENTER currently trigger searches, then verify the requested forward and reverse selection searches and the single-ENTER behavior. Done means the four shortcuts and the two CTRL+F behaviors work consistently for selected text.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100