We should think about hiding/closing the findfast panel if it's loosing focus.
I tend to "findfast" something, continue working and on the next find, the find dialog appears because the panel was still visible. On 22.06.2011 09:12, Adam Kennedy wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
