Ctrl+F should only search your current chat channel, and it should search partial matches

We've been conditioned with web browsers, text editors, etc. to have "Ctrl+F" search the current thing, in a simple manner. It should also search partially.

What's happening now: Discord's "Ctrl+F" brings focus to its advanced, whole-word search. The only good thing is it's case insensitive. You have to type extra stuff like "in:current-channel-name" -- yes, this part can auto-complete, but it's still extra to type nonetheless. Searching for "cut" will never find you "cutscene" because it only does whole words. Again, extra to type.

What should be: "Ctrl+F" should not bring you to the advanced search. Instead a little popup should come up, just like in a web browser. It should partially, case-insensitively, quickly search the newest-first, perhaps a few seconds after you stop typing. It should be a reverse search from the bottom up. This wouldnt be very taxing, because, again, it would only search #current-channel-name (wherever you are in at the moment).

99% of the time I want a simple search of my current channel and almost never want this advanced search that I keep getting defaulted to. Hopefully others in the same boat.

thanks,

icy`

VG Dragon

February 01, 2020 23:27

looks like a bug.

I tried it and it works like you wanted it.

If I push "Ctrl+F" it looks like this

February 02, 2020 00:39

yeah, something changed v recently, they prob fixed the UI part of it ;D

I'm on the PTB build, and yeah, I don't get a the "search options" pop-out by default anymore -- only the little box with in: #channel already pre-typed, just like in your screenshot!

Still hopeful on the partial searches. One day!

Comments