I've been using the FAR's Search Box (pressing ALT + the first letter) for ages, and in one of the current updates it seems it lost the search-capability for some letters.
For me, two key combinations to start the search are not working anymore:
ALT + R
ALT + Z
I closed all system services, in the hope, one was taking over the hotkeys.
But that didn't help - any ideas?
3.0.6478.0 x64 (pure and ConEmu)
Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
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Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
rs3d, are you able to assign a keyboard macro to e.g.
You might also wish to download and unpack an earlier (known good) version of FAR (no installation required) to see if these shortcuts still work there.
Alt
R
? (Press Ctrl
.
Ctrl
.
Alt
R
and see if the key is displayed.) If no key is displayed then some external process steals the shortcut despite your efforts (or the keyboard malfunctions). You might wish to use a program like Hotkey Detective (use at your own risk) to see the intervening app.You might also wish to download and unpack an earlier (known good) version of FAR (no installation required) to see if these shortcuts still work there.
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Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
Hotkey Detective is really genius... the new AMD Adrenaline was taking over the hotkeys, so FAR was not seeing the shortcuts.
Thanks a lot for helping me to debug this HaRT!
Thanks a lot for helping me to debug this HaRT!
Last edited by rs3d on Thu 08 May, 2025 16:34, edited 1 time in total.
Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
Hello, I am having the exactly same problem for Alt+O fast search. Unfortunatelly Hotkey Detective shows nothing. I have a Polish programmers keyboard but it doesnt matter if I switch layout to English or use right Alt.
BUT it turns out that Alt+Shift+O still works.
BUT it turns out that Alt+Shift+O still works.
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Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
Are you able to assign a FAR keyboard macro to
AltO
? If the shortcut is not seen by FAR, there's some external program that steals it (or the keyboard malfunctions).
There's a chance that the offending program runs elevated. Did you run Hotkey Detective “as administrator”?
Does any other program react to the shortcut, e.g. Visual Studio or Word?
Фар есть инструмент, а не нянька. © 2009 DrKnS
Search Box [ALT] does not work for all letters
Thanks for suggestion to assign Alt+O to a new macro, good way to check things. This in fact showed that sth else is hijacking this shortcut. I ended with using Nirsoft's HotkeyList and started killing programs one by one. Turns out it was Foobar.