There are a few web pages that list the keyboard shortcuts that can be used in Blogger's post editor. Many of them are the standard windows shortcuts such as cut, copy, paste, redo and undo. Two of these web pages are included below.
Others relate to formatting and are what you'd find in a Word Processor. I'm referring to bold, italic, underline. And Ctrl + k also works to create a hyperlink.
I wasn't surprised that Ctrl + f opens a textbox into which the user can enter a search term. This is typical in many applications. If you're using the HTML editor, first click in the post editor to focus it -- the cursor needs to be there, otherwise the browser's find tool will search the entire page, ignoring the editor content.
If you need to search for the next occurrence, Ctrl + n will not work; it will open a new window instead. If you need to do a lot of searching, it's better to copy everything into a proper editor, or use the Atomic Chrome extension with Emacs. Or try the workaround I describe below.
Out of curiosity I pressed Ctrl + Shift + f thinking the shift key modifier would do something extra. I was right, but it doesn't search for the next item. Instead it allows you to perform a search and replace, which does provide a means to step through each occurrence.
Here's how it works. Press Ctrl + Shift + f, enter the Term to search for in the "Replace" box, then enter into the "With" box the text that would replace it. If Term exists, four buttons appear:
- Yes, which performs the replacement just on the highlighted Term and no others
- No, which skips to the next Term, if any
- All, which replaces all instances of Term with whatever you entered in the With box
- Stop, end the process, leaving replacements in place.
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| The Find and Replace Actions: Yes, No, All, Stop |
If you're brave enough, you can use this find and replace as a regular find tool that jumps to the next occurrence with each click of the No button. If you're really afraid of making any changes, know that you can enter the same text in both boxes, Replace and With. So even if a replacement occurred, nothing would change.
