[CLOSED] Search should not clear the last searched term

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Issue by felipenmoura
Thursday Mar 24, 2016 at 00:57 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#12323

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Just an enhancement that I think could be in Brackets, not in an extension:

Steps:

• You open the FindBar
• You type "something" and doFind
• You close the FindBar
• You open the FindBar again

What should happen:
It should reopen with the last searched term.

What happens:
The input in the FindBar comes empty.

Opinion:
I say that because I use the keyboard almost all the time and hit:

• Cmd+F
• type
• enter (and go next until I find what I want)
• ESC (closes the FindBar)

I use esc to get back to the source code, where the last "match" left my cursor.

I believe the Search tool should open with the last searched term on it, or we could have a shortcut to move the focus/cursor from the search input into the source code, not closing the FindBar.

TAB kinda does it...it does close the FindBar, but when we hit cmd+F, it reopens with the last value.
But even using TAB, if I type something in the code, hitting cmd+F brings the FindBar with a clean input again.

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Comment by petetnt
Thursday Mar 24, 2016 at 07:11 GMT

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Hi@felipenmoura,

which version of Brackets are you running? It should remember the last searched term on 1.6. after #11869.

There's also a pending PR #11996 for keeping the search bar open.

Also you can use F3 to jump to the next matching term after searching regardless if the bar is open or not. Hope this helps 👍

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Comment by felipenmoura
Thursday Mar 24, 2016 at 23:17 GMT

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Helps, indeed.
I updated to 1.6 and it works better, too :)