John Levon wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:59:28AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > > > | The minute the minibuffer becomes necessary, the game is over, collect > > | your shoes, and go home ... > > > > Because you rather want a popup? > > I want default usable interfaces that do not require book-learnin' > > Suitable visual display and feedback is an important rationale for the > existence of dialogs. > > I'd love to see how you do "match whole words" in the minibuffer.
Easy enough. Make it a two-line minibuffer. Don't even need to enlarge it - use the minibuffer area _and_ the status line below it and stuff the GUI elements from the search & replace dialog there when doing a search. No learning required. They press a key / use the menu as usual, and get the search & replace stuff. Only they get it at the bottom of the screen instead of in some stupid dialog that obscures half of the text they're going to search in. Everybody know how to move the dialog - and hates having to do it too. Helge Hafting
