Addressing the hotkeys for performing various functions.
Discovered that the Scintilla editor(windows version) doesn't trap any keys pressed with the CTRL key down.
That means that CTRL-F for Find and CTRL-H for replace don't work out of the box.
Spent a lot of time trying to find a solution.
Finally decided to try sub-classing the scintilla control and IT WORKED.
So I am now going through to make sure all hotkey functions are activated.