This would have been more fitting for the mailinglist it has a broader audience. But the thing is changing behavior in something that's now rather "old" will break a lot of other people's workflows. I'm not really convinced that this is a good idea. The bug number is from one of yorba's old bug trackers. You probably won't find it anymore. ctrl-f should work since 0.25.3: commit a9e4ef6df60822cf2feb8eb621f81d82504e4806 Author: Jens Georg <mail jensge org> Date: Thu Dec 22 13:23:30 2016 +0100 Add <Ctrl>-f as shortcut for search bar As mentioned in the documentation Signed-off-by: Jens Georg <mail jensge org>