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17 years ago

8.0 sp 1 Find Dialog

Hi, I recently updated Quartus II WE to 8.0sp1. The text editor now has one little annoyance: when I enter a search string in the Find dialog, the focus is transferred to the editor. Usually af...
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17 years ago

Speaking of F3's. Is there a reliable shortcut to search in messages? Sometimes I have to search for a specific warning and then I click the message pane, press Ctrl-F and see search dialog invoked for the Text Editor. Grunt, cancel. I click in message pane again, press F3 and, provided there was no search string given before, a Find Dialog in the messages context opens up. Great. Now I want to change the search string.. Uh oh.. The only way out is by a context menu. Again, there's nothing fatal, but it's just goddamn annoying.

It's just possible that some engineer in Altera will once feel tired of moving mountains and would take a slow week of fixing really simple stuff, probably marked as "low prio/cosmetics" in their database but appreciated so much by us end users ;)