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Re: General FIND/REPLACE/FIND_AGAIN refactoring [message #23069 is a reply to message #23059]

Mon, 14 September 2009 08:23

mr_ped
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Registered: November 2005
Location: Czech Republic - Praha

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The 'REPLACE IN SELECTION' popup is very annoying when it appears when what you really wanted to do is find the selected text in the file.

Yes, it been nagging me since it's addition. I tried to use it for a while to see if I can adapt to it, but it never helps me, in those weeks I didn't need replace in selection at all, I did need only find, or s&r global.

There's also something very annoying about hot keys+focus when you do first search(or replace?) and want to do another one, can't recall what exactly, because I learned to work around that, but I think the Find/Replace is way too much different from other applications, and I didn't find any advantage in that difference.

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When text is selected, it is automaticaly put in the 'FIND TEXT' popup

This would be preferred by me too.

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When text is selected the 'FIND NEXT' feature searches this text instead of the previous searched texted

This is a bit novel approach, so I feel a bit uneasy about this one, but you never know until you really try. Grin

I will try to write down use-cases how *I* do use find&replace, and post them here later.

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