Keyboard shortcut for search has changed.

[Anton Schleef]

Okay, this very day (and I mean literally within the past 24-36 hours, most likely the lesser since it was less than 24 hours ago I last updated) the keyboard shortcut for the Search (Find) function in gedit has been changed. It is no longer Ctrl+F like it always has been. In fact, when I open up the Search menu and go to the line for Find it just lists 'A' for the keyboard shortcut. I was using the previous shortcut as recently as yesterday, and I tend to use that specific function on a fairly regular basis (not daily, but on days I use it I may use it a dozen or three times).

I highly doubt I'm the only person to be having this problem, but I'm not seeing a mention for it here yet so I'm reporting it.

I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with gedit 2.30.3.

[Anton Schleef (razmoudah)]

I just took a look through the help for gedit, which still lists the keyboard shortcut for Search (Find) as 'Ctrl+F', and then was looking through some of the other keyboard shortcuts, and in the Edit menu the only thing listed for Paste is 'Z', although it's official shortcut is 'Ctrl+V', which does still work. It's starting to make me wonder just what other bugs small bugs are in there and haven't been noticed, but I don't use it heavily enough to make it worth the effort for me.

I will state that I typically use the keyboard shortcuts such as 'Alt+F' to open a menu and then hit the underlined key for a specific item, the find function is the only one I normally use the 'Ctrl+' shortcut for, as that one's the same for all programs, but the menu it's listed under may differ.

[Anton Schleef (razmoudah)]

Well, I found out what happened, as I stumbled upon both the problem and the fix just a couple minutes ago. Apparently gedit lets you edit what the keyboard shortcuts for commands are, and the help files doesn't say a thing about it (I did look for such a feature, and I didn't find it). How you do that is if you hold Alt+'underlined letter of menu' (F for File, E for Edit, V for View, S for Search, T for Tools, D for Documents, and H for Help) it opens the menu and then you can either press the underlined letter for the specific command you want or use the arrow keys to navigate through the menus. If you have a command highlighted you can press 'Backspace' to erase the existing keyboard shortcut (if it has one) and then you can input a new keyboard shortcut for it. I was just doing some rapid fire pasting (Yes, I still use the alt shortcuts for that rather than the others.) and hit 'Backspace' twice before 'Escape' to exit it and then a bit later noticed I'd inadvertently erased and changed the shortcut.

Good news, it isn't a bug, but an undocumented feature that caused the problem. Bad news, despite the rather long list of people watching this bug I accidentally found the fix myself, and what exactly was happening, before anyone who might be involved in creating updates for gedit was able to post what the problem was.

As a moderate request, could it get expedited that the feature gets added to gedit's offline help files? I don't know if it'll make a difference for anyone else, but I doubt it could hurt.