[DrJava] [ drjava-Ease of use Issues-546093 ] Find Via Keyboard

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Ease of use Issues item #546093, was opened at 2002-04-19 07:09
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Category: Platform Independent
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Centgraf (centgraf)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Find Via Keyboard

Initial Comment:
Currently, the Find/Replace dialog does not have a default button.  If the user presses return while focused on the find field, the "find next" action is performed, but if they press return while focused anywhere else in the dialog, nothing happens.  If "find next" is going to be the default action in the dialog, it should be consistent and visually obvious.  Therefore, it should be implemented as a standard default button, rather than a special-purpose handler for that text field.  It is generally a poor usability choice to have a completely different behavior for the same user action based only on the current focus.  I would strongly discourage implenting a separate handler for the replace field to trigger the "replace" or "replace/find next" actions, since this only increases the number of actions that can be triggered by the same keystroke.  This is particularly important because replacement is a destructive action, although the effect is mitigated by undo.

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