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Message #85134
[Bug 1325650] Re: CTRL+F turns search off
In addition to that, old behavior of Ctrl+F used to be to select all
text content in search box, so that what you type right after Ctrl+F
replaces a previous search. I think this is what is expected.
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Title:
CTRL+F turns search off
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
Installed: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10
Candidate: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10
Version table:
*** 3.10.3-0ubuntu10 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
My problem is that CTRL+F acts as a switch for search mode: it turns
it on (when it is off) and off (when it is already on). While this
could make sense, I find it quite counter intuitive:
* I'm reading a PDF
* I want to search "foo": I type CTRL+F and "foo", it works
* I find the occurence of "foo" I'm interested in
* I continue reading, *without leaving the search mode*
* at some point, I want to search for "bar", so
* I type CTRL+F and "bar"... but CTRL+F just turns off the search mode, and "bar" is ignored
This is quite frustrating. As the search mode can be left with ESC, I
suggest to change the behaviour of CTRL+F to setting the focus to the
search box, so that CTRL+F *always* results in searching
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