[Geany] Combined find & replace dialog? - Re: Asking for a new feature

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:19:54 +0100, Nick wrote:

>On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:33:52 +1000
>Lex Trotman <elextr at 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:
>
>1. 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

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