[Geany] incremental search backward revisited

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:17 -0500, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2008 12:55 PM, Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I think John's idea of an icon on either side of the
> > search field is the most intuitive. Even if they are simply stock
> > right/left arrow icons, their intended purpose should be fairly
> > obvious to the user:
> >
> >   [<]__________[>]
> >
Yes, this is probably the solution. It still increases the toolbar
witdth...but as Jeff already pointed out, there isn't the one and only
solution which makes all people happy at once ;-(.

> Just a quick observation: out of all the widgets we can have visible
> in the toolbar, all of them are accessible via the keyboard, and can
> be left off the toolbar for experienced users, *except* for the search
> field. I cannot do an ISF without that search field in the toolbar.
> 
> > But since I keep my Geany toolbar hidden 99.99% of the time,
> > most of what I say here is probably just noise anyway :-)
> 
> I'd keep the toolbar hidden myself if I didn't need that search field.
> It's always nice to get an extra couple of lines in the main text
> pane. :) My tool bar is basically empty except for the search field,
> and just mostly takes up space.
Any idea how an incremental search without a text entry field could be?
Open another dialog with a text entry? Sounds like the usual search
dialog(Ctrl-F). Once searched with this dialog (and closed it), you can
do incremental search forward and backward.


Regards,
Enrico

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