Ctrl-Shift-F gets you directly to Find in Files. The idea behind the escalation was to move from a quick and easy search without much interface fiddling to more sophisticated find dialogs with more flexibility, carrying previously entered search inputs as you go.
That said, often you know you want to Find in Files straight away. So Ctrl-Shift-F is there for that purposes. The Ctrl-F escalation from Find Dialog to Find in Files just lets you do "Hrm, I wonder if this is in any other files as well". What I was trying to optimise was the number of 1. Keyboard operations in general 2. Keyboard operations requiring unusual finger contortions 3. Keyboard operations different to the previous one 4. Taking hands off the keyboard to touch the mouse So for the common case of looking for the next simple string, the sequence is just... Ctrl-F -> type string -> Escape ... all of which can be done without actually having to even look at the fast find panel at all. When you can't find it in the fast find, Ctrl-F gives you a kind of "Search Harder!" for relatively fine-grained tailoring of the search. Having the initial fast find panel gives us some liberties to add more features and make the find dialog more complex, because you only get there if you have more than simple needs. Ctrl-F again to get to Find in Files I would class as a convenience to avoid you having to enter the various settings and search string again. Personally, most of the time I use Find in Files I get there directly with Ctrl-Shift-F. The idea behind F3 when no Find dialogs or panels are open is to essentially to do a stick "replay" of whatever the last active find was before you closed the dialog, plus initiating a new search without any dialogs by selecting text. When done this way, I find I generally do... Double-Click on term, F3 (repeat) Because (for me) right hand is doing the clicking and left hand is hitting F3, this is really efficient. Adam K On 19 June 2011 23:43, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Sebastian Willing > <sebastian.will...@web.de> wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 19.06.2011 14:06, Zeno Gantner wrote: >>> One fix would be to abolish the find dialog window completely, and >>> move all the functionality into the bottom search box, as it is in >>> Google Chrome, Monodevelop and Firefox (I think). >>> >>> This would also make the interface more simple+natural. >>> Less choice is sometimes good. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Zeno >> >> This wold be the last solution we should choose, because the >> findfast/panel search (first on Ctrl+F) lacks major features and still >> has some minor bugs. >> > > > Oh and > ctrl-f > ctrl-f > ctrl-f > > (3 times) > bring up the find-in-file dialig which would be ok but I wonder if it > has a separate memory too? > > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
