How to hit Find in Advanced Search with Edit as text enabled


While searching file in advanced mode, with edit as text enabled
I wonder if there is any combo of key that can launch the find command

both enter (even with ctrl/alt/shift), and tab seem to be trapped by the text editor
alt f launch the popup to choose dir
alt n the very close refine button

i can get how to hit the find button without relying to mouse
a bit annoying

One way is Alt-X to turn off Edit as Text mode and then Return to start the Find.

An easier way that doesn't require switching modes would definitely make sense. I've added it to our list.

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Thanks. So I will close this post as solved for now.
It seems to me Find button is more high priority than Find in

May be something like assigning

  • Alt + F to Find
  • Alt + Shift +F to Find in

in the future will be useful

It's not a question of which control has priority. F isn't an accelerator for the Find button at all. Find is the dialog's default button, so it doesn't usually need an accelerator; you can push return instead in most situations.

Multi-line text fields that also allow tab characters are a special case, since both the return and tab keys modify the text rather than going to the dialog itself and triggering other actions.

A point maybe that

  • if one ui pane is mainly dialog oriented
    one will use those ampersand shortcut, default button etc. most of the time

  • if one ui pane is mainly text oriented,
    one will need to rely most of the time on control chars (alt, shift, smth) to bypass the text editor
    and reach secondary controls (less priority but important by their number).
    and default button too (current practice nowaday with ctrl+enter, alt+enter etc.)

This status can be reconfigured - what 's alt x does

BTW A thing that can be useful in dopus is to consider if taborder can be customized
(corrolary if some controls do not get them at all; eg. are only reachable by mouseclicking)