Text Tool - Find Previous

[Acorn]

Dear Xara...

The Find and Replace Dialog (Text Tool > Ctrl+F or Selector Tool > Ctrl+Alt+F), does not have a Find previous button. There does not appear to be a Key_TextTool_FindPrevious function.

Why this oversight?
Do you not realise how frustrating this is?

My current remedy is to use Text Tool > Ctrl+G after reposition the text cursor higher up the text.
You do not have the courtesy of advising Ctrl+G invokes the Key_TextTool_FindNext function anywhere.

A highlighted 'All found' might be useful for a serious DTP.
An automatic copy into the Find on opening when there is a text selection would be handy.
The last retained search or even a history might be nice.
the pop-up that becomes a stuck-up "End of search scope reached. Continuing from start." could do with closing when you do just that. Otherwise, how do you know if you have found all instances?

Acorn

[mwenz]

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A highlighted 'All found' might be useful for a serious DTP. ...

That's sort of the way Affinity Publisher works. The found text appears in a panel below the find/replace input with a snippet of the context, but not on-page.

I don't use find in Xara applications. Does it now go from page to page looking?

[Acorn]

Does it now go from page to page looking?

Yes, it can as there is a tick box for just that.

Acorn

[mwenz]

Excellent, Acorn. Thanks.

On-page highlighting would be nice and likely easier to implement versus Serif's solution--then Xara wouldn't need to make a panel. It is also far more visual and applies to more than dtp but also web.

[wizard509]

Thanks Acorn!!!

[handrawn]

You do not have the courtesy of advising Ctrl+G invokes the Key_TextTool_FindNext function anywhere.

FWIW it's listed in customise key shortcuts [standard/classic] as 'find next match'

[Acorn]

FWIW it's listed in customise key shortcuts [standard/classic] as 'find next match'

Yet if to try to add Ctrl+G to another key, it fails to show in the Conflict List; you only see Group.

Another bodge.

Acorn