Finding and Navigating

Finding and Navigating

Find and replace

Ctrl+F	Open the find bar
Ctrl+H	Open it with the replace row showing
Enter / F3	Next match
Shift+Enter / Shift+F3	Previous match
Esc	Close the find bar

Every match is highlighted as you type, with the one you are on highlighted more strongly and scrolled into view. The counter reads "3 of 12". Stepping past either end wraps around.

Matching is case-insensitive. Replacement text is inserted exactly as you typed it — it does not adapt its case to the match it replaced. It inherits the match's formatting where the match has one (replacing a word inside bold text leaves it bold); a match that straddles a formatting boundary has no single formatting to inherit, so its replacement is plain. An empty replacement deletes the match.

Replace all unfolds every folded section first, so it cannot miss an occurrence hidden inside one, and it is a single undo. It replaces exactly the matches that existed when you pressed it, so a replacement containing the search text is not replaced again.

Esc closes the find bar while the cursor is in the query or replacement box. From the document, use the bar's ✕.

The outline

The navigation panel lists every heading in the document, in order, indented by level — including headings hidden inside a folded section. Turn it on from the view controls.

• Click an entry to jump to that heading. If it is inside a folded section, the section unfolds so you can see it.
• The heading you are currently under stays highlighted as you type and scroll, so you always know where you are.
• An entry with headings nested under it has a chevron: collapse it to tidy the list. That is a panel-only disclosure — it hides entries in the outline, and does not fold anything in the document.

Folding

Folding hides a section's content and leaves its heading, the way an IDE collapses a method.

To…	Do this
Fold or unfold one section	Click the chevron in the gutter beside its heading, or press Ctrl+M with the cursor in it
Fold everything	Collapse all sections on the command bar
Unfold everything	Expand all sections, or Ctrl+Shift+M

Folding is a view of the document and never part of it. A folded section is saved, exported, printed and searched in full — folding changes what you look at, never what you have.

Following links

Hold Ctrl and click a link. A web address opens in your default browser; a relative link to a .md file opens that file in a new tab, resolved against the folder your document lives in.

The status bar

Along the bottom, and always about the document you are looking at:

• The file's full path
• Word count, character count, and estimated reading time
• The cursor's line and column
• The section you are currently in

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