Switch off the new Delphi 2010 Find feature

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In Delphi 2010 a new Find bar has been added beneath the source editor. Though I sounds like a good idea I find it prettry anoying when F3 should be pressed multiple times for finding next matches. It works from time to time for me.

How I can switch it off and use the old search fnctionality?

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"I find it prettry anoying when F3 should be pressed multiple times for finding next matches" Ok..., but how else should it work or in other words, what are you missing? – Heinz Z.
I think you're actually saying you preferred the old 'press F3 to go to next search item' approach and you want it back, right? – robsoft
I agree. There was no need to muck with Ctrl+F find. For the things that a "modeless" find is useful for we always had Ctrl+E (incremental search). The only problem with Ctrl+E was that it was sensitive to changes in the Ctrl+F dialog so you had to Ctrl+F to change behaviours in Ctrl+E when required. All they had to do was extend Ctrl+E just a little bit and leave Ctrl+F alone! – Deltics
F3 still works the same as it always did. 1 CTRL-F n Your search term 1 [enter] 1 F3 still works just fine and with the same number of keystrokes for a find, find again (n+3) – David Dean

2 Answers

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It is not possible to switch back to the old modal behavior. That code is gone. If you’d like to see all the results in a list, you can use “Find in Files” and choose either “open files” or “files in project” to keep the number of files being searched to a minimum

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Depending on how reliant you are on the latest versions of the VCL components, you may be able to run a slightly older version of the IDE as your editor, and use command-line compilation to compile your code using Delphi 2010. I have in the past mixed and matched IDEs in this way, but admittedly this is more difficult if your software is component-heavy, so to speak.

Edit: Moved my comment.