[suggestion] Pressing Ctrl + F / Ctrl + H automatically pastes the selected text into the `Find…` field SOLVED

[Jensen Head]

This is common behavior in many text editors, and it's the expected behavior, unlike the current behavior where the search dialog remains unchanged regardless of the selected text.
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PDF-XChange Editor 10.7.1, build 399
Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045.6456

[rakunavi]

Hello Jensen Head,

As shown in the video below, in my environment, pressing Ctrl+F or Ctrl+Shift+F after selecting text automatically pastes the selected text into the respective fields of the Find dialog or Search pane. I confirmed this behavior in the latest builds 401 and 399. Note that Ctrl+H appears to have no function assigned by default.

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I hope this helps, but please forgive me if I misunderstood anything.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Jensen Head]

pressing Ctrl+F or Ctrl+Shift+F after selecting text automatically pastes the selected text into the respective fields of the Find dialog or Search pane

This is strange. I have these keyboard shortcuts bound to the following functions:

Title: &Find…
Adobe Name: Find
ID: cmd.find
Tooltip: Find specified text in active document.

Title: Find and &Replace…
Adobe Name: N/A
ID: cmd.findAndRepl
Tooltip: Find and replace specified text in active document.

When selecting live (editable) text, I also have the "Select Text" mode enabled. What could be causing such different editor behavior?

[rakunavi]

Hello Jensen Head,

Title: Find and &Replace…
Adobe Name: N/A
ID: cmd.findAndRepl
Tooltip: Find and replace specified text in active document.

This command should be assigned to Ctrl+Shift+H by default.

Best regard,
rakunavi

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

[Jensen Head]

This command should be assigned to Ctrl+Shift+H by default.

Could you please clarify? In PDF-XChange Editor, does the way a command works depend on which keys are assigned to it?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Jensen Head

The combination itself would not, but the tool in use would. To get the effect Rakunavi indicates, you need to have the "select text" tool active (or the hand tool, with "select text/images" enabled), and be using that to select the text in your file. If you are using the "Edit text" tool, this does not take effect.

Also, regarding the difference of Ctrl_H and Ctrl_Shift_H - note that when you are using the Edit text tool, by default, Ctrl_H is bound to opening the "paragraph options" dlg, so if you have re-bound something else to Ctrl_H, those two actions may interfere with one another.

Kind regards,

[Jensen Head]

To get the effect Rakunavi indicates, you need to have the "select text" tool active (or the hand tool, with "select text/images" enabled), and be using that to select the text in your file.

Daniel, this is exactly what I did, as I wrote directly in the third message of this thread. I don't see effect.

regarding the difference of Ctrl_H and Ctrl_Shift_H - note that when you are using the Edit text tool, by default, Ctrl_H is bound to opening the "paragraph options" dlg, so if you have re-bound something else to Ctrl_H, those two actions may interfere with one another.

In the context of this issue, the Edit text tool shouldn't concern us. If we're not in this mode, the hotkeys assigned to it shouldn't activate or conflict with hotkeys in other modes. However, I checked my settings: among the 1,483 commands in the application, I don't see another one that has the same keyboard shortcut as the "Find and Replace…" command. There is also no conflict notification (and it shouldn't appear). Using the `Ctrl_F` and `Ctrl_H` keyboard shortcuts correctly opens the "Find" and "Find and Replace" windows, respectively.

What am I doing wrong?

[Willy Van Nuffel]

@Jensen Head

Do you remember ever having changed the shortcut for Find & Replace ?
The default setting for this command is CTRL + SHIFT + H

When you go to the Properties of the "Find & Replace"-command and then click the "Reset Command"-button, do you see a change from CTRL + SHIFT + F to CTRL + SHIFT + H ?

Kind regards.
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PDF-XChange Editor - Find and Replace command - Shortcut.png

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello,

Even if the hotkeys were changed, the general handling here should still be the same, it is part of the "open find/open search" commands to do this if text is selected.

I think the only time this does not work with the select text tool, is when your are inside of a text comment. Is that possibly the case here? If so, that is intended, but if the issue is reliably happening with base content text as well... than I am lost as to what else could be the cause here.
A small part of me wants to ask how much effort goes into trying to find ways to stump me like this!

While are no settings that should have an impact on this, perhaps you could try exporting your application settings, and then reset them. If the reset fixes the issue, please send us your settings export so we can use that to try and reproduce it. If the reset also does not help... I have no clue where else we could possibly go with this, and will need to poke around the Dev Team's brains for a bit...

Kind regards,