Search in Files: Ctrl + Enter / Click should open new search tab

[Kåre Särs]

Hej Dominik,

On tisdag 13 februari 2024 09:51:29 EET Dominik Haumann wrote:
> Hej Kåre
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 9:34 AM Kåre Särs <kare.sars at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Monday, February 12, 2024 9:57:53 AM EET Dominik Haumann wrote:
> > > Moin!
> > > 
> > > The Search in Files plugin has the feature to open a new tab by clicking
> > > on
> > > a dedicated "Add new search tab" tool button. This works, but the
> > > workflow
> > > is a bit inconvenient.
> > > 
> > > It just came to my mind that an easy solution would be: When
> > > CTRL+clicking
> > > the "Search" button, we could open a new tab automatically (copying the
> > > current search options). The Ctrl+click (or Ctrl+Enter) workflow is also
> > > used e.g. in Browsers to open a link in a new tab.
> > > 
> > > It would be a small but convenient change.
> > > 
> > > Any takes? :-)
> > > 
> > > Maybe we could add this as todo in a "Kate in 2024" gitlab issue? :-)
> > 
> > That could be a nice new way to open a new tab... There is also the (not-
> > assigned) shortcut to open the search in a new tab, but if you already
> > have
> > entered the search string when you decide that you want a new tab, it can
> > be annoying. It opens the new tab with the selected word in the editor
> > and that is probably not what you had in mind if you already had edited
> > the search string.
> > 
> > So sounds like a good addition! The only problem I see is that it would be
> > a bit hard to find if you don't know it.... How would we make people
> > aware of the possibility?
> 
> How is it discoverable in browsers? Just tested this: not at all.
> I'd argue "who cares" in this case. Yes, it's not discoverable, but at the
> same time, it would still be a nice workflow addition.

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