Switch off the new Delphi 2010 Find feature

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Switch off the new Delphi 2010 Find feature

In Delphi 2010 a new Find bar has been added beneath the source editor. Though I sounds like a good idea I find it prettry anoying when F3 should be pressed multiple times for finding next matches. It works from time to time for me.

How I can switch it off and use the old search fnctionality?

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It is not possible to switch back to the old modal behavior. That code is gone. If you’d like to see all the results in a list, you can use “Find in Files” and choose either “open files” or “files in project” to keep the number of files being searched to a minimum

David Dean - Embarcadero 2009-12-02 02:08:17

Craig Young 2009-12-05 21:35:00

Please clearly state your objection in a report to Quality central and I’ll make sure that it gets the attention of the appropriate people.I believe you are mistaken and the number of keystrokes required had not been changed.My answer was strictly on how to get a modal dialog and a list of all places a search term could be found, which seemed to me to be what the original poster was asking for.

David Dean - Embarcadero 2009-12-07 19:36:09

Depending on how reliant you are on the latest versions of the VCL components, you may be able to run a slightly older version of the IDE as your editor, and use command-line compilation to compile your code using Delphi 2010. I have in the past mixed and matched IDEs in this way, but admittedly this is more difficult if your software is component-heavy, so to speak.

Edit: Moved my comment.

Craig Young 2009-12-04 12:36:13

Been using Delphi for 10 years. Nothing about it has ever annoyed me half as much as the new Find dialog/bar. I suffer a huge wave of anger over this horrible 'feature' several times a day now. A classic case of 'if it ain't broke, break it'. Thanks, Embarcadero, for that!

John Carvill 2010-04-14 15:03:02

That is a completely useless answer, adding nothing to the discussion. *What specifically* annoys you about it?

cjrh 2010-04-14 23:18:55

Does your comment, which rudely admonishes me for not adding to the discussion, add anything to the discussion? Does the fact that I do not specify which aspect(s) of the new Find Dialog annoy me, necessarily render my comment unworthy? What specifically annoyes me about it? Well, let me count some ways... Well, the fact that it totally, irreversibly replaces a long-familiar piece of functionality, rather than offering an optional alternative to it, how about that?

John Carvill 2010-04-27 13:32:38

I think the position of the dialog - near the bottom of the screen - is pretty counter-intuitive (though I guess we might get used to that in time). I hate the fact that I can't now switch from 'Find' to 'Find in Files' by just accessing a tab on the (already open) Find dialog - now I have to invoke the 'Find in Files' separately.

John Carvill 2010-04-27 13:33:04

I hate the fact that if I set my cursor in the code window, hit CTRL-F to find, then I want to scroll down through the list of previous search terms, so I use my mouse wheel, what happens is the code window scrolls, not the list of search terms, so I have to explicitly place the cursor in that list to access its contents....

John Carvill 2010-04-27 13:33:30

I hate the fact that when I search for a term that isn't found, I get not one but two modal notifications that no result was found. There's some specifics for you, off the top of my head.

John Carvill 2010-04-27 13:34:16

Dear Embarcardero team, I am using Delphi for years and now i seriously think to say goodbye. You have implemented so many annoying changes. Why? What is it for? We (developers) are used in old style CTRL+F, CTRL+C, CTRL+V, etc. I really hate new IDE, working with Delphi is difficult for me now. I spent more time to write the same code.

Robert 2010-10-02 20:18:36

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