Le 04/12/2011 20:21, Nathan Broadbent a écrit :
("close dialog" currently only closes the dialog for "find all" style options)
This is true. However, if you look at the "Add wrapped search" [1] feature request (which is still open), Nick Treleaven and Enrico Tröger had a conversation about changing this back in 2009:
2009-10-14 05:49:13 ntrel: I suppose we could make the option 'Always wrap' and then change the dialog 'close' checkbox to apply to all actions. Sound OK Enrico?
2009-10-21 10:30:46 eht16: Nick, yes, sounds good.
Hum yeah, you make me remember I saw this the other day.
However I don't agree that "close" should apply to all actions if it's saved (and it should be saved), because my use-case wouldn't fit: I always have the "close" checked, but (almost) never want to close the dialog when I click "next".
What I think is that keeping the dialog when all results are in the message panel isn't really useful; but when searching with the find dialog I generally use the Next button.
And final use case that wouldn't fit is to "prepare" a complex search pattern (regex). I want to try it first to check it actually matches as I want, and then find all -- well OK, I do this more using replace dialog than search.
Hum, you mean displaying the "wrap search" prefs from the pref dialog in the find dialog too? Why not, but I'm afraid it'd make the dialog less readable for not much benefit.
Well, if the "Close dialog" checkbox did apply to all actions, and the "wrap search" checkbox was also on the Find dialog, then both of those settings wouldn't need to be in Preferences any more.. Because they would always be configurable on the Find dialog.
I'm a bit tired of the debate though, so I'm happy to just apply Dimitar's patch and close all of these feature request tickets :)
Well, so let's stop here and be happy with Dimitar's patch :)
Regards, Colomban