"Find and Replace" text box holds the cursor

Question

context, Find and Replace "window" in VS2012 (rc)

Anyone know how to either alter the behavior or get back the old find and replace?

When you execute a search in the new "Find and Replace" you can press F3 to cycle through the results (same as old behavior). However, you have to click ESC to put the active cursor location in your code. With the old setup (if you have the search window auto-close) the cursor is already in the code. Pressing down without pressing ESC requests the history of searches dropdown list to open.

Basically, I just want the old search window, it worked perfectly.

Answer 1

Nope, this is the new search box, and the old one basically isn't available anymore. What you can do it file a bug report on the Connect site, but honestly it will probably be ignored because MS has decided that usability is not important for this new version of Visual Studio (in my own humble opinion)

Good luck!

As an alternate, I guess that you could make an extension that repeats the previous behaviour (like I am doing for all of my Macros) but that is kind of in the territory of overkill.