Feature Request: Pressing Ctrl+F should search for whatever text is selected, NOT whatever text was previously searched for
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- Dominant language
- Racket
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- 103
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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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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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