On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:19:54 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:33:52 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
But from my point of view, the find and find in files dialogs don't overlap much in their options so a combined dialog would be quite a lot bigger & then you have to choose which search you want as well. At the moment I often only have to do Ctrl-F return to find in the document, or Shift-Ctrl-F return to find where something is used in the whole source.
So I for one would vote for keeping them separate and simple, but it depends on what other people think.
I too think Find and Find in files are fairly separate things.
But I do think there could be reasons to combine the find and replace dialogs, as they share many options and when replacing you sometimes want to find all matches first before replacing them. This would have some advantages:
- It would be much easier to perform a replace after using Find All in
Document to see what matches there were. You wouldn't need to copy the search string across to the replace dialog. 2. You could use the Find Previous button between making replacements. 3. Assuming the Find and Replace dialogs would be used in a given session, a combined dialog would save some memory.
The replace and 'replace & find' buttons could go in an expander.
What do you think?
I still think it makes things only more sophisticated and confusing. Though I don't have a strong opinion on that. So, if anyone wants to go for it, ok.
About Christoph's screenshot: the dialog looks way too big to just search something, IMO. If I see the Replace field, I would first think that I opened the wrong dialog when I just want to search text. But that's probably just me.
Regards, Enrico