I have findSelection bound like that as well, and ALT-f is bound to filterSelection which I find works for me better than find in many situations.
I do resort to tab every now and then because I'm an AS400 programmer and tab is an important key on the screens I often deal with, but Windows has offered the ALT- shortcuts for many decades (i.e. you know that ALT-x is 'regular expression' on the find/replace panel because the x in expression is underlined) so, like Buck, my fingers often do much of the work without me actually thinking about it. When I have to reach for the mouse is when I usually get a little annoyed.
(to bind a key in RDi: ALT-w, ALT-p, type "user key", press [tab] then [down] to select "User Key Actions", ALT-k, type "a-s-f", ALT-c, ALT-[down], type "findS", press [down], ALT-s, ALT-a, [tab] then [enter]. Now you have ALT-SHIFT-f bound to findSelection in LPEX editors. It actually took a while for me to interpret what my fingers would have done...)
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Shaw
Sent: 22 January 2015 20:33
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Clientfor System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
Another workaround for find: I've had Ctrl-Alt-F mapped to findSelection for many years. It's worked the same since 6.0, insulating me from any changes. It doesn't help a lot with replace, but I do a lot more finds than replaces.
Dave Shaw
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From: "Buck Calabro" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 1/22/2015 2:01 PM
To: "wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
On 1/22/2015 12:47 PM, Ken Killian wrote:
The control+F no longer place the high-lighted field in the Find Box like EVERY OTHER programmer Editor on the planet. This is includes ECLIPSE!!!
Yes, this annoys me...
This Find dialogue issue doesn't annoy me hardly at all. I find the default Eclipse and Notepad++ behaviour to be suboptimal as well, so I myself don't think of either of them as a model for what I myself would like to see.
This is NOT intended to diminish that this is a pain point for Ken and others - it clearly is. My only point is that a severe pain point for one may go unnoticed by someone else.
What is the most common Reason to use find & replace? To find a string & replace it.
I completely agree.
The other functions are purely secondary. Why can the Next tab stop be
the replace? Yes, you can cut it down from 12 tabs stops down to 4.
If you change your window preferences...
My workflow for Replace appears different to what others do.
1) Select the text to find
2) Ctrl-c to copy
3) Ctrl-f
4) Ctrl-v to paste the text in the Find box
5) Alt-p to move to the Replace box
6) Ctrl-v to paste the text (again) and type over it. This is how I keep the columns from shifting left/right in fixed D specs
6a) Select various options (rare):
Alt-x - Regular Expression
Alt-t - Restrict to selection
7) Alt-e to replace All
I don't use the Tab key even once, much less 12 times.
Again, I'm not sharing this in order to diminish the pain that anyone feels from the... unusual tab order in the Replace dialogue. I'm sharing it to show that there is another way, a workaround if you will.
To be honest, the thing that annoys me most about the Replace dialogue is that I can't press F12 to go back to the editor; I need to use Escape, which my brain insists is how I get to the command line :-/
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