Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-30 Thread hkrems
On Sep 26, 8:12 pm, Jimmbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 4:18 am, hkrems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > In the meantime I am still using the "old style modal find" - and had > > to accept that it "isn't the same as before": I cannot double-click a > > word in the replace pattern and s

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-29 Thread Jim Correia
On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:46 PM, motus wrote: > I have this problem and some others. > For exemple, I use to do Grep searches a lot > and now if I double click to select text > and then Command-E (Use Selection for Find) > I lose the Grep option ! > and have to cheched > again Command-G BBEdit 8.7.2

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-29 Thread motus
On 26 sep, 20:12, Jimmbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 4:18 am, hkrems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > In the meantime I am still using the "old style modal find" - and had > > to accept that it "isn't the same as before": I cannot double-click a > > word in the replace pattern and see

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-29 Thread motus
I have this problem and some others. For exemple, I use to do Grep searches a lot and now if I double click to select text and then Command-E (Use Selection for Find) I lose the Grep option ! and have to cheched again Command-G --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received th

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-27 Thread Jimmbo
On Sep 18, 4:18 am, hkrems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > In the meantime I am still using the "old style modal find" - and had > to accept that it "isn't the same as before": I cannot double-click a > word in the replace pattern and see it highlighted Sometimes I > do not see the cursor in thi

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread gocap
barebones wrote in their blog that the setting was shot and pushed into a ditch. well thanks for the resuscitation. it's my hands that are asking for it, not me! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBE

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick Woolsey
>That command returns this error: > >defaults[8508:10b] Unexpected argument bool; leaving defaults >unchanged. > >And here I was hoping for sanity > Just email wrapping; the command should be entered on a single line with the last part being "-bool YES" (hopefully :-) like this: defaults write c

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread gocap
Yes caught the hard wrap but should have seen that. But that's wonderful. I will open a bottle to celebrate. Many thanks!! (happy bunny™) On Sep 19, 12:21 am, Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There should be no space between the hyphen and the word "bool". > > Jim --~--~-~--

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:15 PM, gocap wrote: > That command returns this error: > > defaults[8508:10b] Unexpected argument bool; leaving defaults > unchanged. The command got hard-wrapped in transit. defaults write com.barebones.bbedit FindDialog:RememberStartAtTop - bool YES There should be no

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread gocap
That command returns this error: defaults[8508:10b] Unexpected argument bool; leaving defaults unchanged. And here I was hoping for sanity --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To pos

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Jim Correia wrote: > The modal find dialog will remember the start at top setting. Bah. That is worded incorrectly. Let me try again... The modal find dialog will *honor* the "Remember start at top" setting, if it exists. There is no longer a switch in the GUI t

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:13 PM, gocap wrote: > It seems so ridiculous that bbedit can't now remember the start at > top setting in the modal dialog any more. Is there a hack that can > make it do it? The modal find dialog will remember the start at top setting. There is no longer a switch in

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-18 Thread hkrems
> Well I just HATE the "new way" as it takes away that choice.  It seems > so ridiculous that bbedit can't now remember the start at top setting > in the modal dialog any more.  Is there a hack that can make it do > it?  (rgh!) Well - I don't 'HATE' the "new way", I simply turned it O

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17-Sep-2008, at 14:13, gocap wrote: > > Well I just HATE the "new way" as it takes away that choice. It seems > so ridiculous that bbedit can't now remember the start at top setting > in the modal dialog any more. Is there a hack that can make it do > it? (rgh!) Hack? No, use t

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-17 Thread gocap
Well I just HATE the "new way" as it takes away that choice. It seems so ridiculous that bbedit can't now remember the start at top setting in the modal dialog any more. Is there a hack that can make it do it? (rgh!) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-04 Thread Carlton Gibson
2008/9/4 Bruce Van Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This discussion seems to go 'round and 'round. While I use the > Start at Top option regularly, I don't get why BBEdit's new > approach evokes feelings strong enough to lead some to feel that > BBEdit is losing its punch or should be abandoned for s

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
lly, given Jim's explanation below of what's appropriate in the non-modal Find window, I want to ask: Could there be a "First" button in addition to the "Next" and "Previous" buttons? One question Jim might have is how to decide which button responds to h

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-04 Thread Errol Sayre
>> As a point of interest, when I want to do this (and I use that sort >> of >> workflow all the time), I use Find All, click through the results one >> at a time in the results list, and then just make the changes I want >> in the results window -- now that those results windows are >> edita

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3-Sep-2008, at 14:32, Kerri Hicks wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Errol Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> In my experience BBEdit is very good at maintaining its state for >> searching from the top... I can search from the top in the modal >> dialog, skip a few results, make a ch

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Errol Sayre
Just in case it's not clear, I still think BBEfit is THE best text editor out there. It's my love of a great product that makes me such a harsh critic. Also, I think the fact that they retained they old dialog demonstrates that the issue is more complicated than simply "the new way is bet

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Greg Hemphill
My comments are intermixed below... On Sep 3, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Jim Correia wrote: > > What happened to "Start at Top"? > > Nothing. "Start at Top" is still available in the old-style modal Find > interface. > > If you prefer the old-style interface, i

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Richard McLean
On 04/09/2008, at 6:11 AM, Errol Sayre wrote: > This change is obviously a move to make BBEdit operate more like > other applications, but I've always thought BBEdit had the best > find & replace system of any app... Totally agreed. Any text manipulation that needs find and replace I *always*

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Errol Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my experience BBEdit is very good at maintaining its state for > searching from the top... I can search from the top in the modal > dialog, skip a few results, make a change, and hit search again and go > to the next res

Re: What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Errol Sayre
On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Jim Correia wrote: > "Start at top" isn't appropriate in this context. If there were such > an option, it would either have to be automatically turned off when > you clicked "Next", or it would always find the first match within the > document, no matter how many times

What happened to "Start at Top"?

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Correia
What happened to "Start at Top"? Nothing. "Start at Top" is still available in the old-style modal Find interface. If you prefer the old-style interface, it is still available. You can enable it by checking "Use modal Find dialog" in the "Text Search"