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There's no keyboard shortcut to move the keyboard focus from the Find bar to the document (while keeping the Find bar active). It can be emulated with something like Ctrl+1 (move focus to the Projects view) followed by Ctrl+0 (move focus to the editor, which then puts focus on the document instead of on the Find bar), but that's not very convenient. Maybe Ctrl+F from within the Find bar could be made to move the focus back to the document.
I think Ctrl+F can be confusing and it is also used to go from replacebar to searchbar. I can add Ctrl+0 shortcut for jumping back to document or any other shortcut. However, I would not connect it with Ctrl+0 from project view, therefore It would be not changeable in options/keymap.
I don't see that it would be confusing; one could have the following: Ctrl+F: Replace bar -> Find bar, Find bar -> Editor, Editor -> Find bar Ctrl+H: Find bar -> Replace bar, Replace bar -> Editor, Editor -> Replace bar Regarding the other suggestion, can't you simply use whatever shortcut is bound to the "Editor" action? (I have Editor bound to Ctrl+BACK_QUOTE, because that's better for my RSI-ridden hands than Ctrl+0.)
Ok, for a developing point of view implementing any other shortcut would be much more easier than Ctrl+F. It is now implemented in such way that Ctrl+F action can have multiple calls and it doesn't matter. If I want something else from Ctrl+F I need to know exact state and it can be introduce bugs. I am still investigating options here.
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Still relevant in current dev build.