On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:26:56 +0200, Heiko wrote:
Am 05.08.2009 schrieb Dominic Hopf:
Wow. I'm really ashamed. I've always used shortcut CTRL-F and never gone to the Search menu to see options. Ok, now I know that I can get that behaviour using SHIFT-CTRL-F shortcut.
How about merging the two menus like in Delphi (5)?
I havn't seen Delphi, maybe post a screenshot??
Two images attached.
I like the idea with the tabs in one dialog. But I think, the key shortcuts ctrl+f and ctrl+shift+f and so on should be left as they are an just open the dialog with a different tab focused by default. This behaviour should also apply to the Search menu. The menu items should be left as they are and whatever would be clicked, would focus another tab within a find dialog by default.
Ah, this is actually the thing I was proposing, I meant "merging the dialogs" (my mistake). The menus are not overfull. Sorry for the confusion.
Result of this thought is: The behaviour of Geany wouldn't change at all, but you could switch between different kinds of search (which currently are Find, Find in files and maybe Replace) in a "general" Find dialog.
This is the same I do in Delphi. I never learnt the shortcut for direct "find in files", so I do "ctrl+f" and then change the tab. :-)
IMO, this is harder to use than using the shortcut or the menu item. Opening the dialog first and then switch the tab just seems suboptimal to me. But well, I'm not completely against this request, I just don't see the benefit. The only sense I can make of a tabbed dialog is when you use normal Find and you get no results, so you want to "extend" the search to Find in Files. But not sure how often this actually happens.
Regards, Enrico