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    • johnbachir
      johnbachir last edited by

      A convention and feature in MacOS is command-E mapping to "Use selection for find". This puts whatever is selected into the current app's "find" field. So instead of this:

      1. select text
      2. command-c
      3. command-f
      4. command-v (opera does do this part for us automatically, so that's nice)
      5. enter or command-g to find instances

      If "use selection for find" is supported, the above is replaced with this:

      1. select text
      2. command-e
      3. enter or command-g to find instances

      Additionally, "Use selection for find" will put the text into a global "find buffer" (not sure what the technical API term is) that other apps use. So this can be done:

      1. select text
      2. command-e
      3. switch to another app
      4. command-g

      It would be great of Opera could support this!

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