On Jan 29, 2008 3:47 PM, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:17 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008 12:55 PM, Jeff Pohlmeyer yetanothergeek@gmail.com wrote:
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?
After the user initiates either an ISF or ISB, maybe you could echo the search characters in the Status Bar (along with a little 'F' or 'B' to indicate forward or backward search direction). If the user has the Status Bar hidden, initiating an incremental search could make it visible.
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.
Yeah, I think that would defeat the purpose of a fast unobtrusive incremental search. Also, part of the usefulness of incremental search is how the search result gets highlighted as you type. Having a dialog in the way could obscure that.
---John