Another enhancement to the find/replace tool is a context sensitive replace that I used to have in my Emacs days.
When I want to change foo to bar I usually want to replace all Foo with Bar and all getFoo with getBar etc as it is now I have to do two passes first with uppercase then with lowercase. It would be nice to do this in one pass. Regards Anders Janmyr Chris Bartley wrote: > Although i'm now stuck in a Windows world, I grew up on Macs and for years > did all my coding in BBEdit. The only thing i really miss, though, is how > BBEdit handles Find and Replace (see > http://www.bbedit.com/images/aqua_find_dialog.gif for a screenshot of the > dialog window). Perhaps the JetBrains folks can get a copy and try it > out? There's a free Lite version available > (http://www.bbedit.com/products/bbedit_lite.html), although I don't know > if Find and Replace is as powerful as in the commercial version > (http://www.bbedit.com/products/bbedit.html). > > I'd love to see the following Find and Replace features added to IDEA: > > 1) The ability to be able to toggle between the Find and Replace windows. > For example, if i type CTRL-F to bring up the Find window and then i > realize i'd really like to do a replace, i should be able to type CTRL-R > to switch to the replace window (and IDEA should keep whatever i've > already typed in > the Find window). The reverse would be nice too. > > Actually, for the four search-related windows (Find, Find in Path, > Replace, Replace in Path), it might be nice to be able to switch from one > to any of the other three simply by typing the shortcut for it (yes, this > is motivated by stupidity...i often type CTRL-F instead of CTRL-SHIFT-F). > > You'll see in the BBEdit screenshot mentioned above that BBEdit just > combines the find and replace windows (though there are still separate > shortcut keystrokes). It's done very intuitively, IMO, and this is how > i'd love IDEA to behave. > > 2) Multi-line search and replace text boxes. The current single-line > boxes drive me insane. > > 3) Ability to save find and replace patterns (this is one of the BBEdit > features i miss most). > > 4) A fixed-width font in the find and replace textboxes. It currently > appears to use the IDE font (e.g. Dialog), but i would prefer it to use > the editor font. > > Thanks! > > chris _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
