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Ozkan
Ozkan

Reputation: 4170

Pin search bar to Sublime Text 2

Is it possible to pin the search bar/search&replace bar (Ctrl+F or Ctrl+H) to the window. Because now, if I press Esc, my search bar disappears.

For example when having search bar + multi-line cursors active and when I want to deactivate multi-line cursors using my keyboard (I know a mouse click deactivates multi-line cursors too), I click on Esc. But Esc deactivates both (search bar + multi-line cursors)

I hope you understand what I mean.

Edit:

There is one thing that I'm asking myself a lot of times. I can make the search bar active by doing Ctrl + F, but after I search I want to go back to edit my file (I want to go out of my search bar and go to the place where I found what I searched) This is again possible with mouse click but i want to do it with my keyboard. (something like tab out of the search field). Anyone who knows there is a key binding for this? --> I found I can use Alt+Enter for this but it selects all occurences. to disable the selections I just move with my arrow keys...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 676

Answers (1)

phts
phts

Reputation: 3925

If you're using ST2 you can just edit/remove default key binding (as I remember) for this:

{ "keys": ["escape"], "command": "hide_panel", "args": {"cancel": true},
  "context":
  [
    { "key": "panel_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": true }
  ]
},

ST3 doesn't allow you to edit default bindings so I was able only to reorder Esc button behavior when panel is visible: first press deactivates multi-line cursors, and the second press hides a search panel. If no multi-line cursors active then Esc only hides a search panel.

Try to add these lines to the User's key bindings file:

{ "keys": ["escape"], "command": "single_selection", "context":
  [
    { "key": "num_selections", "operator": "not_equal", "operand": 1 }
  ]
},

Hope this will help.

EDIT: Fixed lines to add

Upvotes: 4

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