A ‘Find’ box that stays on screen and doesn’t disappear after editing the found word, necessitating command F every time. Not an onerous process in itself but very time-consuming when reviewing a whole project. Or am I doing something wrong?
Many thanks
You don’t need to keep recalling the Find panel in order to continue the search; Cmd-G and Cmd-Shift-G will continue to take you to the next or previous instances of the found word. If you really want the Find panel hovering, however, there’s a hidden preference you can turn on to do this. Section D.4 in the user manual (Help > Scrivener Manual) explains how to apply these via the Terminal (it’s really quite simple) and the one you want for this is “D.4.9 Do not auto-hide find panel when searching”. With Scrivener closed, just copy and paste
defaults write com.literatureandlatte.scrivener2 \ SCRSuppressFindPanelAutoClose 1
into Terminal.app, press Return, then close Terminal and reopen Scrivener to have your Find panel never auto-hide.
Is there a Windows equivalent for this?
Not an equivalent for the hidden preference. The Find dialog always remains visible on Windows unless you close it. You can do so however and still use F3 and Shift-F3 to skip between instances.