I am writing a new tutorial for creating fanart with gimp for beginners and I’d like to reference the built in search feature, but can’t seem to find any official documentation to point to. I’m curious if my search-fu has regressed or not. The only thing I can find is a very nice tutorial by davies mendia design, but I hate to reference non official sources if I can help it.
Search system
As GIMP keeps growing and getting more features, it becomes increasingly difficult to locate this or that command in the user interface. This is especially true when you are a new user who has yet to master image editing, or an experienced user who is accustomed to a different application.
GIMP 2.10 comes with a search system that allows easily locating a command available in GIMP’s menu. Press the slash key (/), type a keyword, and choose the command that looks most applicable.
…and really do you need to know much more than that ? You should combine it with finding the menu location as shown in Help > Plug-in Browser which also has a search option. 12.7. Plug-In Browser
If the Menu location is inconvenient then /? is useful for running those nested context plugins that somehow end up at the bottom of a menu.