fileability/chocolat-public — Issue #636: cmd+e, cmd+g shortcuts
Author: mayo
Created: 2011-11-18 06:58:46+00:00
State: open

Cmd+e, cmd+g are system wide shortcuts. Highlighting something and pressing cmd+e lifts that text into "search clipboard", and the same search string can be accessed in any other application at that point. Try it out: highlight any word here and press cmd+e. Go to text edit or anywhere else where that word appears, and press cmd+g, it'll find it.

Forcing cmd+e assignment to something else breaks system wide usability. I also noticed cmd+g will not pick up from system wide search clipboard either.

See more on TextMate's blog http://blog.macromates.com/2005/the-shared-find-clipboard/ . This is also documented in some of the usability and common practices docs, but I can't find the links right now.

If you are used to using the OS X way of searching, this is super irritating...