[Geany] Asking for a new feature

[Heiko Studt]

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. :-)


MFG
Heiko Studt

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