[Geany] Highlight/list replacements

[Nick Treleaven]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:49:06 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Actually it'd be nice to have an option for the
> >> replacements to be highlighted so I could see the places it made
> >> changes I didn't mean (does that often happen to you with change all??
> >> :-)
> >
> > Could be useful, although maybe better if the replacements were listed
> > in the Messages window so you don't have to scroll through the whole
> > document.
> >
> 
> The problem with listing them is that there is no context, some
> erroneous changes will be obvious from the change, some won't, so I
> will be wanting to go to the changed line so I'd expect that the
> message would act like a compile error and allow click to go to the
> line.

Yes, you could go to the line. I see your point though, that the list
might not be useful if the context is important, but there may be
enough cases where the line is enough. Not sure yet how the UI would
expose this behaviour.

Regards,
Nick