Monday, August 11, 2003 11:43 AM szurgot

Ctrl-I (Incremental Search) and the importance of sliced bread

Of all the keystrokes and combinations in VS.NET, the one I find myself using the most is Ctrl-I for the incremental search. So much so that I find myself using it in most other editing programs (It does nothing in Notepad, but it brings up the Index Tuner in SQL Query Analyzer)

It would be wonderful if MS would propagate keystrokes like that around to other editors.

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# re: Ctrl-I (Incremental Search) and the importance of sliced bread

Monday, August 11, 2003 12:22 PM by Dan Bright

Just wait until you try to AutoComplete (Ctrl+Space) in MS Word or something. I catch myself doing that every now & then.

# re: Ctrl-I (Incremental Search) and the importance of sliced bread

Monday, August 11, 2003 12:24 PM by James Avery

I end up trying to use the Clipboard ring in all sorts of apps. (Cntl-Shift-V)

# re: Ctrl-I (Incremental Search) and the importance of sliced bread

Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:35 AM by Drew Noakes

I wish this would search within closed regions though... am I missing something?

# I did it for them.

Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:38 PM by Edwin Evans

I did it for them.

I created a program that does incremental search in Notepad, Word, and Internet Explorer using Shift+Space. HandyFind is available at http://www.handykeys.com.