[Geany] Another request from a new user

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Tue Sep 21 16:31:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:56:31 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > IMHO, find and replace is such a core component of a text editor, it
> > has to be done right. Both find selected and find next should be the
> > same key. If something is selected then pressing the find key should
> > search for it. If nothing is selected, it should search for the word
> > that was last time time highlighted and searched for.

I don't think they should be the same keybinding because you may want
to repeat the last search even though you have text selected. Lex's
solution is good though.

> Hear is a quick and dirty patch.

Committed a similar change.

> Someone might consider if making find_again in callbacks.c global is
> the right way to go or if it should be in a utils_... file instead.

I put it in search.c. utils.c should be for general C stuff, non-GUI.

Regards,
Nick



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