Missing shortcuts

[mrx23dot]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

• Please add F3 key to find next result, as it's very common
• alt + mouse selection should do block (column) selection
• ctrl+G should goto line (not bring up help menu)
• ctrl+H could bring up help menu, or better replace menu
• ctrl+End should jump to end of file, same for home, currently ignores ctrl

OS: deb10
Terminal: Version: 2.0.10
Commit hash: b976385

[gdevenyi]

I just came to ask something similar.

I would also accept repeated presses of Ctrl-F (or whatever is bound to find) to repeat the search to jump to the next result.

[mrx23dot]

No default keybinding for replace command #2281

[nieware]

I definitely agree with F3 for "find next" - all editors I know use it. Also Shift+F3 for "find previous".

[nieware]

I checked it briefly now and adding F3 is easy, you just have to replace "F3": "Find" with "FindNext" in defaults_other.go. However "ShiftF3" or "Shift-F3" for "FindPrevious" doesn't work for some reason. When I press Shift+F3, "O2R" is inserted in the editor. Also "O2Q" for Shift+F2 and "O2S" for Shift+F4. No idea what's up with that...

Besides that, the UX for searching is a bit confusing. When you press Ctrl+F and enter a search term, the first found entry is already highlighted, but pressing Ctrl+N to find the next entry doesn't work. You have to press Enter to "confirm" the search text, then you can do "find next". Pressing Esc to close the Find (regex): prompt will cause Micro to "forget" what you entered and keep the previously entered search text (although it already "used" the new search text while you were typing it). This is all pretty confusing, so I would suggest the following:

• no matter what key is used to close the search text box, the entered text should be remembered
• The "find next"/"find prev" shortcuts should also work while entering the search text