Once in a while, pressing ⌘F within the note shows the top search bar, but doesn’t put the focus in the Search field, and loses it completely – typing doesn’t do anything. Sometimes you can briefly see the focus mounted properly, and then disappearing, so it might be some race condition.
When it happens, it looks like this:
This makes it hard to use ⌘F reliably and quickly.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
Any chance you can identify the conditions to replicate this behaviour? Is this happening for specific notes only?
Unfortunately, I don’t have a consistent repro. I do like ejecting individual notes as separate windows by double clicking on them first, and I often see ⌘F fail to focus in that context, but not sure if that’s related in any way.
I can confirm this is happening with me as well. I have several Keyboard Maestro macros that use ⌘F that have been randomly failing. This post helped me figure out this was the cause. It seems to happen randomly, so it’s difficult to reproduce. Maybe 20 percent of the time?
I think I found a repro.
Note no focus.
The hypothesis is that ⌘F by default wants to re-run the last query and continue where left off, but gets confused if a new match is available.
Not sure if that explains every time I saw it, but it’s possible fixing this would fix it all.
Yes! That’s it. Thank you very much.
I’ve got a slew of Keyboard Maestro macros I use with Bear, and this search bug breaks almost all of them.
I couldn’t get your macro to work on my system, but I think that’s because I switch between different size screens. I’ve never had much luck with macros that need to click at a specific place on the screen. However, I discovered that if you click anywhere inside the note and then press CMD F again, the cursor is properly restored to the search box. I’ve updated my Keyboard Maestro macros with this band-aid hack until the bug is fixed by Bear.
Sharing the portion of the Keyboard Maestro macro with the mouse click in case anyone else is having to deal with this search bug.
