#70 Find Bar vs Find Dialog

[Dan]

Since the Find Bar's behavior is the way many other apps work now, it might be helpful is cmd-F was bound to it instead of the dialog. Perhaps a preference to let us toggle the binding?

The Search > Find… dialog’s initial focus is the help icon, not the text input field. This means you have to hit tab or do some mousing before the dialog is useable. Initial focus should be on the “Search For” text input
field.

Now, using the Find Bar... searching on something like "• AlphaC" doesn't work incrementally; you have to hit return before the string is found. Then a subsequent search on "••••" fails - it finds and highlights "• AlphaC".
Close the bar, reopen it, type four bullets, and now the < and > buttons work but cmd-G does not.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

Concerning the preferred binding for Find Dialog vs. Find Bar, I think this is really a matter of test. Rather than introducing yet another preference, you may change the bindings yourself using the Alpha ↣ Global Setup ↣ Keyboard Shortcuts ↣ Menu Shortcuts command.

The initial focus issue seems to be fixed. At least, I don't see it on El Capitan.

Incremental searches from the Find Bar seem to work correctly now: I don't observe any issue regarding bullets.

[Dan]

In a11, the initial focus is still on the ? and not in the search field.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

Weird ! Not for me. I do have the focus on the Search field. Could you have a look at your OS X System Preferences in the Keyboard panel, Shortcuts subpanel. Which radio button is selected at the bottom of this dialog ? The choice is between "Fields and Lists only" or "All Controls".

[Dan]

I'm set to "All Controls".

[Bernard Desgraupes]

That's it. Can you select the other choice ?

[Bernard Desgraupes]

In fact, I should set the focus programmatically, whatever the system preference. Will do.

[John]

For what it's worth, I'm not interested in dealing with the Find bar. I still prefer to use the Find dialog and the keyboard shortcuts for replacing and finding again. Therefore, I would not like Command-F to be permanently bound to the Find bar. However, I would support there being a preference for anything that anyone expresses an interest in.

Best,
John

Since the Find Bar's behavior is the way many other apps work now, it might be helpful is cmd-F was bound to it instead of the dialog. Perhaps a preference to let us toggle the binding?

[Bernard Desgraupes]

I have no intention of changing the ⌘F binding. For those who really want to tweak it, I indicated in the first comment of this ticket how this can be done (using the Alpha ↣ Global Setup ↣ Keyboard Shortcuts ↣ Menu Shortcuts command).

[Bernard Desgraupes]

I have fixed the issue about setting the focus. It is now correctly set on the search field, no matter which System Preference is selected.
Changes committed to the repository (rev. 1194 (sourceforge.net)).