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Bug 250094

Summary:	Emacs keymap: repeatedly pressing Ctrl+S does not iterate through search results
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Roman Svitanic <rsvitanic>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	anebuzelsky, fmorshed
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Roman Svitanic 2015-01-29 13:55:35 UTC

I am just creating an issue for the bug report/request that came on Easel mailing list.

I'm attaching the quote from user's mail:
"After typing Ctrl-s in the editor you should be able to type what you are searching for and find it.  Then, subsequent Ctrl-s should let you do the incremental search.  Compare this emacs behavior to what NB does when using emacs short-cuts.  The default emacs short-cut bindings in NB certainly do not follow this, and I have not been able to manually set short-cuts to make it follow this pattern.  In NB, if you type ctrl-s it does nothing."

Please reassign this issue to the correct category if I have placed it wrongly.

Comment 1 fmorshed 2015-01-29 15:09:59 UTC

I recommend that you first familiarize yourself with emacs' ctrl-s behavior.  Just bring up emacs, type ctrl-s, give it a search string, type ctrl-s again, and again, and again.

Now, notice what happens when you click in the editor!

It is a simple behavior, but it has to be mimicked EXACTLY.

Thank you.

farokh

Comment 2 Milutin Kristofic 2015-02-03 10:22:24 UTC

You can use find next occurence (F3 in netbeans, alt+s in emacs)  for similar behavior. F3 searches what was last in searchbar, if nothing it will open searchbar. 

For behavior as you request, this must be implemented in search code.