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It is interesting how many comments on this page are focused on the short-cut rather than the underlying functionality. Ctrl-F itself has nothing to do with it
by ryanklee 15y ago
It is interesting how many comments on this page are focused on the short-cut rather than the underlying functionality. Ctrl-F itself has nothing to do with it and is purely incidental. The real rub here is that people don't understand that they can search for a sequence. This is equivalent to losing your keys and then locating them only by sense of smell.
- gfodor 15y agoBeyond that, people also generally don't know that you can actually learn the commands to do things with the keyboard by reading the menus.
- nitrogen 15y agoUnfortunately, many applications and operating systems have decided to hide keyboard shortcuts and underlined accelerator keys, in the interest of "user friendliness."
- Sniffnoy 15y agoWait, like what?
- nitrogen 15y agoWindows, for example, won't show the underlines for keyboard accelerators until you hold down the Alt or Ctrl key (I can't recall which, because I always disable the option). Unfortunately I can't recall which application(s) I was using that didn't show keyboard shortcuts next to menu items.
- wazoox 15y agoIt kills me when I watch my non-technical colleague editing a document by repeatedly selecting words, right-clicking, slowly scrolling down to either Copy or Cut, then click somewhere else, right-click, slowly scroll down to Paste... He also regularly "checks" spreadsheets with a handheld calculator... Sometimes going as far as not using formulas at all.
- xom 15y agoTo be fair, I do both of those as well: the former when I have only one hand free, and the latter to sanity-check my formulas.