• Login
Community
  • Login

Search Commands and settings

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Notepad++ & Plugin Development
4 Posts 3 Posters 1.2k Views
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • C
    conky77
    last edited by conky77 Jun 13, 2024, 11:52 AM Jun 13, 2024, 11:48 AM

    Before entering a Issue, I write here (to be sure there are not dulicated and to develop the idea):

    Notepad++ has many commands and settings. A newbie could have some difficulties to understand if there is a function that could help.
    An average user would discover new commands by looking up a word.
    An average/advanced user that has used Notepad for Years could not able to find a command not always used. They know it exists but they are not able to find it or it took them a lot of time to find it (for example I would search change history in the Edit menu, not in Search menu;

    Microsoft Word, many ERPs have a search command to find the program (I don’t know if any text editor has)

    2b8c193f-a397-40d4-9a15-1b5d720a2987-immagine.png

    It would be useful to implement it.

    The command should:

    • searches the description in the function (searching “uppercase” I should find "uppercase
    • searches the description in the menu (searching convert, I should see “Convert case to - Uppercase”, “Convert case to - lowercase”, etc
    • the search should ignore the hotkey special characters (amp or apos, etc);
    • the research should permit writing more than one word and be able to find the command even if the words are not complete or in a different order (e.g since in Italian the last letter expresses singular or plural I could omit the last letter of a word and write the following word)
    • if the item found is a dialog, clicking on it, should open the window
    • if the found item is a command, selecting it, it should apply the command where the focus is
    • it would also be useful a search setting/preferences (with the same tool or a research in the preferences): clicking on the result, it should open the right tabsheet
    M 1 Reply Last reply Jun 14, 2024, 2:11 AM Reply Quote 0
    • A
      Alan Kilborn
      last edited by Jun 13, 2024, 12:01 PM

      Makes me think of the “menu search” plugin:
      https://github.com/peter-frentrup/NppMenuSearch

      C 1 Reply Last reply Jun 13, 2024, 12:16 PM Reply Quote 2
      • C
        conky77 @Alan Kilborn
        last edited by Jun 13, 2024, 12:16 PM

        @Alan-Kilborn it is amazing…the only lack is that you have to know that it exists
        it is more useful at the first access (by a newbie) and placing the search-edit in a more accessible area.
        It would be more useful if it were integrated in N++

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • M
          mkupper @conky77
          last edited by Jun 14, 2024, 2:11 AM

          @conky77 I deal with it by searching the manual and have a shortcut for https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anpp-user-manual.org

          For settings/preferences I sometimes look at the config.xml file and have another shortcut that opens that file using a portable copy of Notepad++… It’s often faster for me to search and edit the config.xml file than to try to remember where in the sub-menus of the preferences a setting is found.

          I agree though that modern software seems hard to navigate. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. :-)

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          4 out of 4
          • First post
            4/4
            Last post
          The Community of users of the Notepad++ text editor.
          Powered by NodeBB | Contributors