We get a lot of people asking about Find and Replace in the Ink discord, which indicates it's not a feature that's very obviously surfaced.

Find and Replace in Inky does, in fact, exist, and is provided by the Ace editor that Inky is built on. It's just not on a very intuitive keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+H - and at the moment there's no way to know this except through trial and error keyboard mashing or by googling "Ace editor keyboard shortcuts", which...also isn't intuitive.

What I wanted to do was hook up Find and Replace to the menu directly, but unfortunately, after a day or so of trying to do this, I couldn't find a way to do this that was achievable by me, and/or wouldn't break the next time we updated the ace editor library!

So, rather than introducing a lot of spaghetti for a feature that already exists, I was thinking we could put a list of keyboard shortcuts in the place people will first look when searching for a Find and Replace function: in the edit menu.

The menu that appears is ugly but functional, and should tell people everything they want to know about find and replace (and a bit more).

It's been implemented in the exact same way that the story stats menu option was, which you can see below here:

With luck, this should reduce the amount of people who need to go to the Ink discord to find out how to Find and Replace in Inky!