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"Help - Find Command" command #964

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meteorquake opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 1 comment
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"Help - Find Command" command #964

meteorquake opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 1 comment

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Generally speaking - and this applies to any program - it takes a while to find commands that are used occasionally rather than frequently.

Can I suggest Notepad4 has a "Find Command" feature where you start typing and it shows a list of matching commands (matching on command name and any extra invisible keywords that might help with the finding, the list updated as you type, perhaps every second), then you (dbl-)click the command and it runs it as if run from the menu. This would also allow an assortment of commands to be added that are not on the menu that are of occasional but important use, such as Filter Lines (i.e. remove all lines that do or don't contain a phrase).

It could be under Help - Find Command and would really benefit from a shortcut.

Cheers, David

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meteorquake commented Jan 22, 2025

I should add that a good number of programs are doing this now, it's a very good approach, and they have used different visual ways to achieve it.
One way is just to have a dialog popup you call up (short cut or menu item) where you type and see the commands to click to run, whilst the MSOffice way is to have a small typing area on the menu itself that as you type offers commands under it that match that you then click to execute.
Both seem fine to me as I would use a keyboard shortcut but for those who click, the MSOffice way would require one less click unless there were a button/menu directly clickable (i.e. not as a sub item to a menu) that popped up the dialog.

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