Problem with "Find next" in lister (6.50)

[gigaman]

The Shift+F7 shortcut doesn't work in TC 6.50 lister - it returns "Not found" even when there are other occurrences of searched pattern (F3 and F5 do find them).

I'm not sure if I didn't have problems even with F3 (not finding anything even though it should), but I cannot reproduce it right now, so it may have been just a typo.

[Sir_SiLvA]

1. No prob here
2.you should have mentioned that SHIFT+F7 is for searching backwards

[gigaman]

2.you should have mentioned that SHIFT+F7 is for searching backwards

It is not. The help file says:
Find next: Continues a search. Key: F5, F3 or SHIFT+F7.
Ctrl+F3 reverses the search direction.

I should also note that the file opened in lister is a simple text file, no lister plugin used.

[SanskritFritz]

Confirmed, but why use Shift F7 if you have F3 which is almost industry standard?

[Sir_SiLvA]

2.you should have mentioned that SHIFT+F7 is for searching backwards

It is not. The help file says:
Find next: Continues a search. Key: F5, F3 or SHIFT+F7.
Ctrl+F3 reverses the search direction.

I should also note that the file opened in lister is a simple text file, no lister plugin used.

mh...opening plain textfile and playin'
F3, F5: Searchdirection=forward
SHIFT+F7: Searchdirection=backward
TC V6.50 Plain Lister without changing any Keys...
Than the Helpfile must be wrong?

(PS: in v4.54 SHIFT+F7's searchdirection was forward)

[gigaman]

Ah, right, it really searches backwards. However, it always searched forwards (including version 6.0).

As for why... well, it's sort of a "standard" from DOS times (Norton Commander, Volkov Commander, even FAR today), and I'm used to it, press it automatically - that's all.

[szlori]

To summarize:

• F7, Ctrl+F7, Alt+F7 starts new search
• F3, F5 continues search forward
• Alt+F3, Alt+F5 also continues search forward
• Shift+F3, Shift+F5, Shift+F7 continues search backwards
• Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F5 also continues search backwards

Well, it's more or less consistent.
But it is obviously inconsistent if Shift-F7 searches forward, since all the other Shift combinations search backwards.
Maybe that's the reason for the change...

[A600]

There should be an option to change that. I've always used SHIFT+F7 to search forward and now it's a real pain to use F3 or F5

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed the Shift+F7 behaviour isn't wanted behaviour - I'm checking for the shift key in a function which is invoked by F3, F5 and Shift+F7. It will be corrected in TC 6.51.