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Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps
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Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps


  • Subject: Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps
  • From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:15:56 -0800

On 6 feb 2011, at 14.11, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>> This also happens with Xcode.  In fact, as far as I can tell, it happens with any app written by Apple.
>>


Not only in Apps written by Apple - In any app properly written for Mac OS X.


>> Someone somewhere thought this was a really clever.  I can't vouch for what other people find most productive, but this "feature" greatly impedes my workflow; I must constantly reenter my search terms instead of just Cmd-Keying "find next".
>>
>> Please tell me there is a way to change this behavior.  I haven't found anything relevant yet.
>
> I think you know the answer already.


Indeed. This is the intended behavior for Mac OS X, and the underlying implementation is provided by NSPasteboard, and in particular the named NSFindPboard. There's no way to turn it off.

j o a r


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