Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps
Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps
- Subject: Re: Find terms "carry over" between apps
- From: Michael Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:23:08 -0500
Not to take this too far off-topic either, but I also find this behavior completely infuriating, especially with XCode. I hate it when I'm searching some text in XCode, check some docs on Safari (using find to jump to the method I'm looking for), and come back to find my query replaced. Sure, at least there's the recently used drop down, but is this behavior really desirable? (I find the "Open Quickly" dialog equally annoying in that it grabs your selection rather than retaining your last search, but that probably has more to do with the way I (ab)use that window.)
Sorry to flame on my first post (hi),
Michael Miller
On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Keith Wiley wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
>
>> On 6 feb 2011, at 14.11, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>
>
> Yep, I was referred to NSPasteboard and NSFindPboard by Christiaan.
>
> Regardless of whether it's the proper behavior, I still find it a complete nuisance to my practices of interacting with a computer, but any subsequent discussion would be off topic except as it tangentially pertains to Xcode use.
>
> Thanks for the information. For better for worse I have a better picture of situation now.
>
> Cheers!
>
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