Edit > Find > Jump to Selection?

Questions & Suggestions
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What's the purpose of Edit > Find > Jump to Selection?

This menu option is not document here: Menus – Keyboard Maestro wiki

When I select that menu item, I don't see any change.

Any insight would be appreciated. TIA!

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Jump to Selection is standard for applications which use text. Imagine you have a text document that won't all fit on one screen. You search for some text, it's found, then you scroll through the document a bit. The found text is still highlighted, but not visible. Jump to Selection will return it to visibly in front of you.

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Hi, @NaOH. Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I've seen that in other apps. However, in the Keyboard Maestro application I don't see any change.

Since it's not documented in the wiki (at least not somewhere that I've found), I wonder if it has any function in Keyboard Maestro.

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If you highlight text that is in a long Comment, and then scroll through the comment so that the highlighted text cannot be seen, "Jump to Selection" will scroll back to it.

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Ah, thanks, @kevinb (and @NaOH). It's seems to work in JXA and shell scripts too. Unfortunately, however, not for selected actions.