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[FEATURE] Enable jumping to next search result with Enter key (also when using before arrow key) #3738
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
One can search in one individual text document with ctrl+f but I couldn't find a way to jump to next search result by pressing some key to go through all the results - in nearly all text editors that works by pressing enter while the search box is (still) focused so I thought it would work the same here and would suggest to make it use the same familiar standard key.
Describe the solution you'd like
Pressing enter jumps to next search result so one can use that to quickly go through the search results. Ideally, one would also have a shortcut for jump to prior search result like shift+enter while the input box is focused. The shortcut can be in the tooltip of the next/down and prior/up search result buttons which one currently needs to click. Moreover, the documentation
Describe alternatives you've considered
One could also use a different key other than Enter which the user could learn via the tooltip on the next/prior jump buttons but again I would suggest to keep the familiar standard key.
Additional context
The documentation only has info on "Searching for notes", but not for searching in notes so I didn't find any shortcut there either.
Activity
pbek commentedon Sep 15, 2026
There are several shortcuts for searching, see https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/shortcuts.html#in-the-note-text-edit-panel. Enter is one of them.
mYnDstrEAm commentedon Sep 15, 2026
Thanks so with this link I found that one can jump to next search result with the up/down arrow keys. This also makes sense but for many text editors, it's enter so I would suggest to inform the user about the up key/down key shortcut via tooltip on the two respective buttons and/or to change the enter shortcut (may be a bug?): pressing enter to next search results does work - but only after using either down or up arrow once. So one can't enter a search phrase and without clicking anywhere or using any other key just press enter to go through the results, one currently has to press an arrow key first and afterwards can also press enter to move through the results further.
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