Boostnote: Where did Find/Replace go?

[huettenhain]

Pressing Ctrl+F while editing a note used to open a text search pane at the top of the editor. Similarly, Ctrl+H would give you find/replace capabilities with regular expression support. I enjoyed that very much, but it seems like it is no longer there in the most recent boostnote version. Any chance of bringing it back?

[mikeres0]

How long ago did this work? If you can give us a rough idea we can look through the changes and see what broke it

[huettenhain]

I am quite sure this worked in 0.6.9 or 0.6.8.

[NonlinearFruit]

Ctrl+F would be great for long notes!

[asmsuechan]

I also want it, therefore I try to implement it before long. However I have key map problems especially vim mode. Ctrl + f is already used in vim.

[apiraino]

Hello,

I've just installed Boostnote 0.8.7 (Linux) and - me too - I'm a bit puzzled on how and where I can use a search function, I couldn't find it.

I've also tried to remap the Toggle Finder(popup function to no avail.

Am I missing something? Any hint?

[asmsuechan]

Hi, @apiraino. If you would want to search the content of notes, you need to use search located at above the note list. We're trying to improve the search function.

[apiraino]

Hello, thanks for the hint. I tried that too, but it has an awkard behaviour, here's two use cases:

• Create a Markdown Note, write "AAABBBCCC" inside. Searching for "AAA", "BBB" or "CCC" does highlight the note indeed

• Create a Snippet Note, write "AAABBBCCC" inside and add title "DESCDESC". Searching for "AAA", "BBB" or "CCC" does not highlight the note, searching for "DESC" does find it

[asmsuechan]

@apiraino They're correct behavior. It means snippet note cannot be searched from MainWindow. If you'd want to search snippet, you need to use Finder.
But you know, it's not intuitive. We should improve the search experience.

[apiraino]

ok, thanks for the clarification. I'll try to remap the "Finder popup" to a hotkey I can use, currently no keycombo seems to work, possibly an issue due to some interference (?) my window manager (LXDE).

[asmsuechan]

@apiraino Yes, you should :smile: Feel free to ask me anything when you have questions. And also you can check our slack team :+1:

[biax]

Boostnote is a nice piece of software.............. but it SURELY needs a ctrl-f with highlight function

[huettenhain]

By chance I observed that in #76, @Rokt33r said that the editor would be switched from Ace to Codemirror. This is how the feature was lost! I checked out the Ace editor and it does have the find/replace feature that we so desperately want. Why did boostnote switch? Is it easy to switch back?

[huettenhain]

Implemented in 0.8.12, thanks guys!

[jaques-sam]

This has been closed 2 years ago, but I can't find any reference in the docs about how to use find or/and replace: https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts. So how do I easily replace words??

[Flexo013]

@jaques-sam As listed in the first post of this issue the shortcut is Ctrl+H when the editor is selected. I have updated the wiki page to reflect this.