my personal preference is to always wrap search, but keep the find dialog open.
This is your personal preference only.
Yes, I was just saying that I would like my personal preference to be possible
I'm not really against having a General -> Search tab, but I'm not sure having a tab with 3/4 settings only is so much better.
Ok, thats fine
- Remove the "Always wrap search and hide the Find dialog" setting.
What about the people who prefer to always hide the open dialog?
+1, that's a feature we have and people use, I don't think we should remove it.
Sorry, I wasn't suggesting to remove the feature, just to make it more customizable.
- Make 'Wrap search' checked by default.
And that'll irritate anyone who prefers not to wrap, and has to uncheck 'Wrap search' any time (s)he starts Geany.
Yep, that's a default value that will probably please 50% users and annoy the other 50%. A pref's good, but changing the default doesn't make much sense if you ain't got no well-done statistics about most spread user opinion.
The reason I thought of putting the 'wrap search' checkbox on the Find dialog, is that the 'close dialog' checkbox does remember it's state after closing and restarting Geany. So a user would only ever need to change it once.
There is one, and only one thing, that is unquestionably better IMHO: separate [ ] "Always wrap search and hide the Find dialog" into [ ] "Always wrap search" and [ ] "Hide the Find dialog". It can even be implemented in backwards-compatible way, so if the lead developers approve, I'll give it a try.
Yep, this sounds sensible to me. It'd be better flexible and I can understand somebody was one and not the other. So yeah, go ahead :)
That's fine too, I'd be very happy if I could just configure each setting separately.
Thanks very much for your responses!
Nathan