Why does double-click on search results inside the Find window cause the Find window to close without even doing anything?
It happens to me a dozen or more times each day and is one of those small annoyances -- I have to slow myself down whenever I click in Find window.
Specifically the problem is: 1. focus is on a text window 2. click in the (inactive) Find window to make it active 3. click again (in same location, quickly) to select a search result 4. RESULT: the Find window closes without opening the result I clicked on! Argh!!!
Proposal:
Only do the "close Find window on double-click" shortcut if the Find window was active on the first click.
--or--
Add a preference item to turn off the "close Find window on double-click" shortcut entirely.
Thanks for a great product.
On Sep. 20, 2016, at 1:04 pm, Erik Neumann erikn@myphysicslab.com wrote:
Proposal: Only do the "close Find window on double-click" shortcut if the Find window was active on the first click.
That sounds reasonable. In the meantime, what about holding down command to make a background-click, so you can single-click on a result without having to bring the Find window forward at all.
-David
Thanks that's very helpful! I was totally unaware of that shortcut.
I find myself often wishing that windows would just become active when the mouse is over them. IIRC, some early (maybe current) Unix workstations do this. There's a lot of click-to-activate overhead on Mac. Maybe there are third party system add-ons that will do that but using those is always a bit dodgy.
--ErikN
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:35 PM, David Green david@tm.comme.ci-comme.ca wrote:
On Sep. 20, 2016, at 1:04 pm, Erik Neumann erikn@myphysicslab.com wrote:
Proposal: Only do the "close Find window on double-click" shortcut if
the Find window was active on the first click.
That sounds reasonable. In the meantime, what about holding down command to make a background-click, so you can single-click on a result without having to bring the Find window forward at all.
-David
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Am 2016-09-22 um 04:22 schrieb Erik Neumann erikn@myphysicslab.com:
I find myself often wishing that windows would just become active when the mouse is over them.
Regards,
Martin Wilhelm Leidig
Am 2016-09-22 um 04:27 schrieb Martin Wilhelm Leidig listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de:
Am 2016-09-22 um 04:22 schrieb Erik Neumann erikn@myphysicslab.com:
I find myself often wishing that windows would just become active when the mouse is over them.
I second that.
Sorry for answering twice. The line above vanished from my first reply by mysterious ways. *THEM*, I suppose.
Regards,
Martin Wilhelm Leidig
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On 22 September 2016 at 11:55, Martin Wilhelm Leidig < listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 2016-09-22 um 04:27 schrieb Martin Wilhelm Leidig < listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de>:
Am 2016-09-22 um 04:22 schrieb Erik Neumann erikn@myphysicslab.com:
I find myself often wishing that windows would just become active when
the mouse is over them.
I second that.
Sorry for answering twice. The line above vanished from my first reply by mysterious ways. *THEM*, I suppose.
Regards,
Martin Wilhelm Leidig
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On 20 Sep 2016, at 21:04, Erik Neumann wrote:
Why does double-click on search results inside the Find window cause the Find window to close without even doing anything?
I see that the code I was using to suppress double notifications got fooled by a double-click in an inactive window.
I have fixed this and also introduced a `keepSearchResultsOnDoubleClick` defaults key that you can use if you want to disable the close behavior.
This will be available in next build (2.0-beta.12.15).
Only do the "close Find window on double-click" shortcut if the Find window was active on the first click.
For someone using double-click to “select and dismiss list” this would probably feel inconsistent, but I think it would be appropriate to support click-through for the results list, that is, the first click in an inactive window will be handled by the results list (to select the clicked item) rather than just activate the window.
It requires subclassing to enable this, so I haven’t done it yet, but it sounds like this would be the ideal behavior for you and it should not affect the workflow of other users.
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