[Eric] Re: eric3: hitting ESC from incremental search field

[Jürgen Urner]

Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Alan Ezust wrote:
>   
>> Just a small comment. I keep hitting <ESC> when I have found what I
>> wanted in the incremental search and it jumps the cursor back to where
>> I started the i-search.
>> Twould be nice if it would just leave the textfield and give focus to
>> editor pane, leaving cursor at the last found search.
>>     
>
> What you want is done by hitting Return. Esc means escape or abort and jumps 
> back to the original position. Return means "That is the position I was 
> looking for."
>
> Regards,
> Detlev
>   

Maybe a bit unintuitive. Usually Return means "start doing whatever". 
And Escape
"stop right now". "Go back to where I started" sounds a bit like a "hit 
F12 key"
feature to me.


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