Re: XCode 3.0 Find Menu comment and question
Re: XCode 3.0 Find Menu comment and question
- Subject: Re: XCode 3.0 Find Menu comment and question
- From: Paul Russell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:34:33 +0000
On 28 Nov 2007, at 18:55, Andrew Pontious wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:34 AM, William Bates wrote:
For what it's worth, I want to make a comment, which is that I very
much dislike the way the "Find" menu is buried in the Edit menu in
XCode 3.0; and I have a question, which is, what happened to the
"find selected text in same document" operation, something I used
all the time in 2.5 and miss dearly in 3.0. Maybe I just don't see
it.
The menu item you're referring to appears to be called "Find
Selected Text". It's below "Find Next" in the Xcode 2.5 (and
earlier) Find menu, but missing from the Edit -> Find submenu in
Xcode 3.0.
You can still use Cmd-E (Use Selection For Find) and Cmd-G (Find
Next) to get the same functionality, although it's two (standard)
keystroke shortcuts instead of one (user-added) keystroke shortcut.
You'll see that 3.0 has fewer top-level menus and menu items than
2.5. This was deliberate, to keep the Xcode menu bar and menus from
growing too large and cumbersome/intimidating. In some cases, menu
items were removed when it was determined that the given
functionality was seldom used or could be accessed in other ways.
For instance, in 3.0, there's no longer a "Rename" menu item under
the File menu, which could be used in 2.5 to rename a selected group
or file in the project window. Most people didn't even know it was
there and used the Rename menu item in the group/file contextual
menu. In 3.0, you can also just click on the group/item name and get
an edit text box without needing to resort to a menu item at all.
If you want a particular menu or menu item back the way it was, file
a bug, but we do have to balance features and visibility against
complexity.
On the whole I like the re-org in XCode 3.0, but the omission of "Find
Selected Text" is very annoying. I used to have this mapped to Command-
H in earlier version of XCode so that it works the same as in BBEdit
and various other editors that I use. It's really jarring to have to
switch between using Command-H everywhere else and Command-E + Command-
G in XCode 3.0.
Thanks for listening.
Paul
P.S. "Find Selected Text" doesn't necessarily need to be a menu item -
I would just like the functionality back and to be able to bind
Command-H to it.
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