RFE: cmd-f as gateway to search/replace

[antoinedurr]

A standard cmd-f brings up the one-line Find: tool, which is painfully basic.

But the real power is in Edit->Search/Replace. This RFE is to make cmd-f (I assume ctrl-f on PCs) be the gateway to the bigger Search/Replace, but also to embellish the basic searching. I’d do this in two parts:

1. add a pull-down to widen or retarget the scope of the search, e.g. ‘Op Names’, ‘Op Text’, ‘Parameters’, etc.
2. add some modifiers toggles similar to what you might find in Sublime Text or VS Code for narrowing or widening the search terms.
3. Preface the Find: text with a toggle that toggles between the simple Find: and the more complex Search+Replace, maybe similar to the > in VS Code
   
   
   
   
   (This is just to make an example out of the > as I think a simple second line is too simplistic if you don’t have access to the potential matches you get on the bigger dialog.)
   As a P.S., the hotkey for Exit->Search/Replace feels very non-standard, at least on the Mac.

[snaut]

Hi @antoinedurr,

thank you for the suggestion, we’ve added this as an RFE for future consideration.

cheers
Markus