RFE: find selected text with find next/prev

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RFE: find selected text with find next/prev

Forum: [READ ONLY] Open Discussion

Creator: Johan Engelen

Created: 2007-10-19

Updated: 2012-11-13

Johan Engelen - 2007-10-19

Hello all,

UltraEdit has a very nice feature that I'd really like to see in N++. It is called "Option (default) to automatically find selected text with find Next/Prev". This means that it is possible to select a word, then press F3 and search for that selected word (or piece of text) without opening the Find dialog. This is a very quick way of looking up a word, say a function when programming.
Could you consider adding this option?

Thanks for the great software,
Johan

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- Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-10-19
  
  NP++ has it, too.
  
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- Don HO - 2007-10-19
  
  Use "Find in all opened documents".
  
  Don
  
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- steakhacher - 2007-10-19
  
  Hi
  
  I think that you are dealing with volatile search the np++ shortcut is CTRL+F3 but you could change it to F3 if you prefer
  
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