<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - find-next and find-backwards not consistent" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142219#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - find-next and find-backwards not consistent" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142219">bug 142219</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:birnbach@posteo.de" title="birnbach@posteo.de <birnbach@posteo.de>"> birnbach@posteo.de</a> <pre>Created <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=171959" name="attach_171959" title="demo text with open search field">attachment 171959</a> <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=171959&action=edit" title="demo text with open search field">[details]</a> demo text with open search field A screencast will not show keyboard presses, which are essential here. However, I enclose a screenshot and hope this explanation will help: In the screenshot, the search field is open (lower left corner, with text 'foo') and the cursor is in it. Under these conditions search works as expected: CTRL-G searches forward, CTRL-SHIFT-G backwards. Now, if the cursor is placed into the document or the search field is closed (e.g. by pressing ESC), CTRL-SHIFT-G will stop doing anything useful. CTRL-G will repeat the last search from back when the cursor was in the search field. As this may have been a forward or a backward search, CTRL-G may or may not invert its behaviour. It seems to me that CTRL-G should //always// perform a forward search and CTRL-SHIFT-G //always// a backward search with the last search string. The present behaviour stands in contrast to what a user is accustomed to from other applications.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>