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Feature request : F3 search

2007-06-29
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Hello,

    I have discovered Notepad++ a few days ago, and it feets perfectly my needs. I have just a suggestion : it would be great if when I select a word and press F3, it search for this word, without the need to display the search box.

    Regards

    Mickaël

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow (for Up search)
      Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow (for Down search)

      The above shortcut is great!

       
    • Perliz

      Perliz - 2007-06-29

      Hi Mickaël,

      The F3 quick search is not defined by default, but you can configure your Notepad++ to use it.
      Go to the settings menu (in french "Paramétrages"), and select the 3rd and last item: "Shorcut mapper" ("Gestionnaire de raccourci" in french).

      There in line 23 you should have the "next volatile search" (Hmm... That's "Recherche volatile suivante" in french) and change the key for F3.

      The usage is simple, you select a word, hit F3 and Notepad will jump to the next word occurrence in the file, if any of course (even looping back to the begining, nice).

      Yan

      PS: My version is in french, sorry from the wording approximation in my explanations.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Try to use CTRL+F3 for down search and CTRL+SHIFT+F3 for up search.