ADR-0075: A top-level Find menu

• Status: Accepted
• Date: 2026-09-08
• Deciders: jka
• Decision: D75

Context

Find…, Replace…, Find Next, Find Previous and the project-wide Search… sat at the bottom of the Edit menu, crowding the classic clipboard and selection commands.

Decision

The whole group moves to a top-level Find menu, placed after View and before Compare. Edit keeps Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All.

• The menu is named Find, not Search, because rio already has a Search pane and a Search… command; a Search menu would read as the same thing. Search… sits below a separator as the project-wide escalation, as in Sublime Text's Find menu.
• The entire group moves. Splitting find commands between two menus would be worse than either arrangement.

The menubar becomes File, Edit, View, Find, Compare, Settings, (later) Help.

Consequences

• This departs from the Windows convention of Find under Edit; Sublime Text is the precedent.
• Labels, commands and accelerators are unchanged. The editor's context menu later brought the find commands back beside the edit actions for the selection (ADR-0108).