[Geany] incremental search backward revisited

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:33:22 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:39:44 -0500
> "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Last year I brought up the topic of Geany having an incremental
> > search backward feature. Nick mentioned
> > (http://lists.uvena.de/pipermail/geany/2007-September/001665.html)
> > that it might eventually get implemented.
> > 
> > Since then, when using Geany, I've tried using Ctrl-F to move focus
> > to the search bar (incremental search forward), Shift-Ctrl-g to go
> > backward, and Ctrl-E to bring focus back to the editor. The problem
> > though, is that it still feels quite clumsy to me. So, I've got 2
> > ideas for improvement:
> > 
> > 1. Since Geany is a GUI editor/IDE, and it's got a toolbar, how
> > about having a (possibly optionally visible) checkbox widget
> > associated with the Search field, such that when checked, does the
> > search in the opposite direction? That would seem to be an easy way
> > to provide incremental search backward. If you think it looks like
> > an ugly hack, you could always leave the checkbox's visibility off,
> > by default, and then provide a sub-checkbox for "Prefs --> Toolbar
> > tab --> Items section --> Show Search field" to make it visible. As
> > long as users could toggle the checkbox (while visible) by hitting
> > an Alt key combo (like other GUI parts), it would speed up editing
> > a lot, IMO.
> 
> I'm not sure that a checkbox is a good idea. Maybe just a keybinding
I agree, I also don't like a checkbox in the toolbar. A possibility
would be another search button next to the search field, dedicated for
backward search. But an usual button would bloat it too much, IMO. I
was also thinking(in the past, John I didn't forget this request :D) of
two search buttons vertically separated. Hard to explain, something
like:

----------------  Button backward
| search field |  ---------------
----------------  Button forward

Without having tried it, I assume it isn't possible to divide a toolbar
item into a VBox and add two widgets in it. Additionally, I could image
it doesn't look very nice, especially with small symbols.

Yet another idea: the current search button next to the search field in
the toolbar gets overloaded: left-click does the usual forward search
and when right-clicking the button, Geany does the requested backward
search.

Regards,
Enrico

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