It would be nice if pressing Ctrl+F calls and dismisses the Find bar (as occurs with Ctrl+H for Find & Replace)
Thanks for creating this enhancement report. As I said on the mailinglist: I'll have a look at it as soon I'm possible to :-)
Thanks, Joren. That is all a non-developer can ask ;)
Joren De Cuyper committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1b375d580fb32739cc3b6625400337fa7380cdab fdo#59101 - [Feature Request] Make Find hotkey (Ctrl+F) a toggle command The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Fantastic! Tested in Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 2823789bec0c029d9714aff0ed65923e23177ef) TinderBox: Win-x86@6, Branch:master, Time: 2013-01-24_22:52:49 Ctrl+F works perfectly as a toggle command and pressing Esc also dismisses the bar! Well done! ;) Thank you for listening and for adding the feature!
(In reply to comment #4) > Fantastic! > > Tested in > Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 2823789bec0c029d9714aff0ed65923e23177ef) > TinderBox: Win-x86@6, Branch:master, Time: 2013-01-24_22:52:49 > > Ctrl+F works perfectly as a toggle command and pressing Esc also dismisses > the bar! > > Well done! ;) > > Thank you for listening and for adding the feature! So marking it as VERIFIED fixed :-). You're welcome. I which every feature was that simple to add :-). You're welcome! Kind regards, Joren
Wouldn't it simply be better if a second ctrl-f would hide the search bar?
(In reply to comment #6) > Wouldn't it simply be better if a second ctrl-f would hide the search bar? What do you mean? 1) if your focus is on the document, findbar closed -> ctrl+F opens findbar + focus on findbar 2) if your focus is on the document, findbar opened -> focus to findbar 3) if your focus is on the findbar, press ESC or ctrl+F will close the findbar
(In reply to comment #6) > Wouldn't it simply be better if a second ctrl-f would hide the search bar? @Emir, that is exactly what "toggle" means. Pressing the same key combination (in this case Ctrl+F) turns ON and OFF the Find bar. This feature has already been added to the 4.1 branch and it works perfectly.
Sorry for the late reply. Here this is what I get on the latest master: 1. Open Writer 2. Press CMD+F 3. Find Bar appears. 4. While FB is active pressing CMD+F does nothing 5. Pressing ESC closes the FB. I think this is a bug. Other than that other Cocoa applications like Safari closes the FB when pressed ESC and the focus is not on the FB. This might be also considered. I tried with different Latin keyboard layouts, and it is still the same. OS X 10.7.5 - 4.2.0 master.
(In reply to comment #9) > Sorry for the late reply. > > Here this is what I get on the latest master: > > 1. Open Writer > 2. Press CMD+F > 3. Find Bar appears. > 4. While FB is active pressing CMD+F does nothing Oh, that bug :-). Yes, that one I alread know. But I didn't opened a bug report for it due bug 49853. All commands (cmd+ ...) have this issue (can't copy/paste/...). Kind regards, Joren
I don't like ctrl+F toggling behaviour at all, and I consider it as a bug. Let's say I need to deal with multiple repeated searches: normally, I hit ctrl+F and type my search string right away. Now, instead, in LibreOffice, I need to check carefully every time if my focus is in the find bar or in the document, before typing anything. If the focus is in the find bar, I have to type the new term to search, can't use ctrl+F because it closes the find bar; but if the focus is in the document I have to hit ctrl+F instead, to put the focus in the find bar. This is uncomfortable and even dangerous, because if I miss to check and hit ctrl+F when the focus is already in the find bar, my term to search winds up into the text. Needs a lot of attention, absolutely not comfortable. Ctrl+F should work exactly like the corresponding menu item Modify/Find does: open the find bar and put the focus in it. What I need is just one single command that I'm sure will put the focus into the find bar, no matter where my focus actually is. Moreover, ctrl+shift+F is very bizarre because it works like ctrl+F plus F3 hit one after the other. Very bad too.
Closing this - the last comment isn't useful - as we can get a ton of people to say they love it (including me). Joren took the time to implement this and there is no bug, it's a feature which you'll have to get used to. Please don't reopen this.