Ubuntu – Gedit: Search next match … usability

geditsearchshortcut-keysusability

Searching the next match with gedit makes me crazy.

  1. I press Ctrl+F
  2. The search input box opens
  3. I enter foo
  4. There is a match for foo. Nice
  5. Up to now everything is sane
  6. I want to search the next match (with keyboard, not mouse): How?

For me Enter or ctrl+F (again) would be intuitive.

But both don't work…

Am I the only one being confused here?

Version: Gedit 3.10.4 (default of Ubuntu 14.04)

Best Answer

https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/gedit-search.html.en

According to this then up/down arrows work, as do Ctrl-G and Ctrl-Shift-G.

I agree, it's not all that intuitive if you're used to more powerful editors - I look at gedit as being equivalent to notepad. Useful in an emergency, but not for Real Work[tm] :)

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