[Geany] incremental search backward revisited

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Fri Feb 22 13:48:07 UTC 2008


Hi,
Sorry for the late reply.

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:39:44 -0500
"John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. When I do an incremental search for something that's already
> visible on the page, and the cursor gets there, I don't think Geany
> should automatically scroll to center the view. The reason is, when
> you're using incremental search to move around on the page, you've
> usually already got the location you're headed to in the corner of
> your eye. If the view scrolls while you're on the way there, it's
> jarring. Also, I may just be going there to set a bookmark, and then
> heading back to where I was. Having the screen flop all over the place
> while just moving around the visible view is disorienting. :)

Good point. In current SVN this should now work as expected for the
search bar, find next, find selected.

> 2.A. Incidentally, I think that using Ctrl-. and Ctrl-, (moving
> between bookmarks) should behave the same way (as described above)
> when the target bookmark is already visible on the screen.

OK I'll do this soon.

Regards,
Nick



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