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["David R. Miller" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently, to search, you either have to press ctrl-F once then enter
the search term, or you must press ctrl-F twice then enter the search
term. If you use the wrong procedure, search doesn't work. That's
unusual, error-prone, and could be easily fixed.

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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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