New BBEdit Search and Replace Window

One of the new features of BBEdit 9 is the new Find/Replace Window, shown below:

BBEdit search and replace window

It's been simplified a lot since the last version, but the really big change is that it is now a modeless window. This means that the Find/Replace window can be left open whilst still allowing interaction with document windows. Initially, this seemed like a good feature to me before I realised a side-effect of this change: there are no keyboard shortcuts for the Find/Replace options anymore. You can see the difference by looking at the old Find/Replace window:

BBEdit search and replace window

In this example, the Command key is being held down to illustrate which shortcuts are available; for example, Command-G toggles the Grep support.

Because of the Modeless window, these shortcuts have been lost in BBEdit 9. This makes the Find/Replace window slightly more cumbersome to use as turning on search options now requires the mouse. Furthermore, the very useful Start At Top option, has been removed completely.

Update: Thanks to Rich Siegel, CEO of Bare Bones Software, who has pointed me towards the release notes which document some brand-new Find shortcuts, thus rendering this blog post mostly pointless. Hurrah!

Comments

  1. Rich Siegel says:

    There are in fact keyboard shortcuts for the items in the new Find and Multi-File Search windows; using the mouse is not mandatory. :-) The changes are documented completely in the change notes: .

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