racket / racket/drracket

Feature Request: Pressing Ctrl+F should search for whatever text is selected, NOT whatever text was previously searched for

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Description

Many other editors will behave as in the title, and I find myself missing this feature when using DrRacket.

I would be willing to do a PR for this, if someone could point me in the right direction (and the DrRacket team would like to add this feature).

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Research direction

Start by locating DrRacket’s Ctrl+F search handling and how it accesses the current selection versus the previous search text. Reproduce the existing behavior, then verify that pressing Ctrl+F searches for the selected text and that the normal search behavior remains intact.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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