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Bug 17636

Summary:	Some users unable to figure out how to "find next"
Product:	editor	Reporter:	David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	issues@www <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 95/98
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description David-john Burrowes 2001-11-13 23:50:56 UTC

Two of the three participants that used the "Find..." command in a recent usability study wanted to find more than the first occurrence of 
their string in the current document. However, they could not figure out how to do this. Of course, F3 is bound to a "find next" kind of action 
in the editor, but participants did not think to try F3. Instead, after finding no command in the menu, they used the "Find..." command 
repeatedly.

Recommendation: Add a "Find Next" menu item in the "Edit" menu with the appropriate shortcut.

Comment 1 David-john Burrowes 2001-11-13 23:57:24 UTC

*** Issue 17637 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 12:27:25 UTC

Target milestone -> 3.3.1.

Comment 3 Dustin Callaway 2002-01-16 23:58:43 UTC

In addition to adding a "Find Next" option to the Edit menu, consider 
adding a "Find Next" button to the Find dialog box itself (directly 
under the "Find" button) and allow the dialog box to stay open as the 
user clicks "Find Next" repeatedly (only closing if "Find" or "Close" 
is clicked). Adding a "Find All" button that would display all lines 
containing the desired text (and jump to any of those lines when 
clicked) would also be nice.

Comment 4 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 09:58:09 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 5 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 10:01:01 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 6 psuk 2004-03-23 18:20:25 UTC

Changing subcomponent to "search"

Comment 7 Martin Roskanin 2004-12-09 16:47:57 UTC

We would like to change the behaviour of F&R dialog.
http://editor.netbeans.org/doc/Proposals/Find/Proposal.html

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 17635 ***