Ctrl F moves the cursor forward

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Hi,

Is it expected that ctrl+F moves the cursor forwards? Usually this shortcut is bound to finding text. (The help pane also says it should be that). This happens in Next mode but not in Classic.

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CTRL-F for search works when you click on an output cell.
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Yes, it is not currently a good UX and there are issues on github about this here

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Thanks Roeland & thanks Brett, I hadn’t seen that bug report. Seems like the cell editor (the gray box with code) is too-aggressively capturing the ctrl-f shortcut. A temporary workaround might be to hit “Esc” or click outside the editor before you search with ctrl-f.

Roeland, what’s your browser/OS?

I’m on Mac Chrome and ctrl-f indeed moves the cursor forward, but I’d never noticed it because “Find” is cmd-f on Mac. Seems like we could probably just remove the move-cursor-forward keymap; I’m not sure who uses that, or what it offers over the right arrow key, or who wouldn’t have a right arrow key.

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Windows.

Windows and Linux don’t have a command key, the standard shortcuts use the ctrl modifier.

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Thanks Roeland, we’ll look into disabling that on Windows & Linux.

I just learned it’s a standard Mac OS shortcut! I wonder if these (from this Apple Support list with lots I didn’t know) predate arrow keys being so common on keyboards:

  • Control-F: Move one character forward.
  • Control-B: Move one character backward.
  • Control-P: Move up one line.
  • Control-N: Move down one line.
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We now have a dedicated Find and Replace UI in the notebook. See the release note here:

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