Things I miss from Bibleworks that I Miss Logos #1: Search ease

Ben

I'm not talking about how fast a particular search runs, but rather, how fast I can set up and run a particular Bible search. Let's say I wanted to search Deuteronomy in the NRSV for all forms of "curse."  I would type

esc [enter] (gets my cursor to the command line)

nrs [enter] (sets the search version to the NRSV)

l deu [enter] (sets the search limits to the book of Deuteronomy)

.curs* [enter] (searches for any word form starting with the letters "curs" )

The time to do all this and run the search? Less than a second. On BW, I could run these kinds of Bible searches in Greek, Hebrew, and English almost as fast as I could think of them, thanks to the command bar and keyboard shortcuts. 
By contrast, Logos is all clicks. The shortcut to get to the Logos command bar on a Mac is... I can't even remember, because it's a 3 or 4-key combination, not something like esc, which is so simple it becomes muscle memory. And can you run this kind of search from the Logos command bar, even? 

Graham Criddle

And can you run this kind of search from the Logos command bar, even? 

I'm afraid not.

Logos 8 adds more functionality to the command box and you can do some searches - but not to the level of specificity you are looking for.

There are discussions about extending the search functionality here but I don't know whether they will address these aspects.