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>In the case of finding something, holding down one key while pressing another has no parallel to real life searching. Ok, so you would recommend what? A sing
by starwed 15y ago
>In the case of finding something, holding down one key while pressing another has no parallel to real life searching.
Ok, so you would recommend what? A single key? But remember, it needs to work in a text editor where you're actually typing stuff.
Of course, searching is such a fundamental verb that there probably should be a dedicated key on keyboards for it. In fact, on android phones, one of the four standard hardware buttons is for search. But the designers of most software have to work in the absence of such sensible input devices.
- rkowalick 15y agoOk, so you would recommend what? A single key? But remember, it needs to work in a text editor where you're actually typing stuff. I hate to be the guy, but the "/" key definitely works to find something on firefox (and lots of programs), and definitely works in at least one text editor I know of...
- starwed 15y agoSure, and I always use "/" in Firefox. But we're talking about for the benefit of people using Word and other like editors.
- Prisen 15y ago"/" is also not a single key on all keyboard configurations. On a swedish keyboard it's shift+7, hardly any easier than ctrl+f.
- xiaoma 15y agoThere are fewer people in all of Sweeden than the city in which I currently live. I don't think theirs is the keyboard the world should be optimising for.
- weinzierl 15y agoThere are fewer people in all of the US than the rest of the world. I don't think theirs is the keyboard the world should be optimising for.
- xiaoma 15y agoCheck my profile. I'm in Beijing. Like it or not, the vast majority of the world uses a keyboard layout closer to that of the US than of Sweden.
- dave1010uk 15y agoSlightly off-topic, but you can also use an apostrophe (') to search text only inside links. Really handy for navigating pages without the mouse.