(i'm dumb, solved) macos vs windows behaves differently when pressing cmd/ctrl + F (search) with selected text

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select text
press cmd/ctrl + f

on windows it will put the currently selected text in the search box (good)
on macos it does not (bad)

[kingkeith]

Presumably you just need to change the value of your preference which controls this behaviour which differs by default on the platform specific settings on Mac, I think it’s something like find_selected_text but I’m not at a computer to check

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Oh…
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[OdatNurd]

It looks like you included a phone number in your reply, which is not a great idea; as such I’ve redacted it out of the message above.

I almost moved your post into the technical support forum from the feature request forum. You should now have the ability to mark Keith’s answer as the solution to your problem.