Issues Encountered When Closing the Search Window with the Esc Key

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sleaf
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Issues Encountered When Closing the Search Window with the Esc Key

Post by sleaf »

Today, I downloaded Everything-1.5.0.1396a.x64.zip, the portable one. Most features work perfectly fine, so kudos to Void! However, when I finished searching and pressed the Esc key to close the window (out of habit from version 1.4), I found that the shortcut didn’t work.
In the shortcut key panel, I noticed there is a command "View (v) | Close Pane", which uses the Shift+Esc shortcut. But even after pressing Shift+Esc, it still didn’t work. Could it be that I misunderstood the function of "Close Pane"?
Pressing Esc can close the options panel, but it cannot close the entire search window.
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Re: Issues Encountered When Closing the Search Window with the Esc Key

Post by void »

Thank you for your feedback sleaf,

Everything 1.4 closes the window on ESC.
Everything 1.5 no longer closes the window on ESC.

To close the window or tab on ESC:
  • In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Keyboard tab on the left.
  • To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
    close
  • Select File | Close Window or File | Close Tab.
  • Click Add....
  • Press ESC and click OK.
  • Click OK.
sleaf
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Re: Issues Encountered When Closing the Search Window with the Esc Key

Post by sleaf »

Yes, after I posted the thread, I thought about it a bit more and realized that I can use Ctrl+W and Ctrl+Shift+W to close windows/tabs directly.
I also found out that version 1.5 of Everything supports a multi-tab mode within a single window using Ctrl+T, which is a bit like the Chromium browsers.
Nice job, Void! :D
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