On 17/07/11 23:31, Miguel de Benito Delgado wrote:
Under MacOS many applications scroll down an extra toolbar from the
top where searches can be performed. Two nice little arrows and a
minimalistic dropdown for options stand by its side, making everything
lovely macish, oh... I like it better than the dialog because it
doesn't end up in the middle of my page blocking precisely what I'm
looking for.
Because of this I've just implemented a search mode using the footer
which remembers what you typed. Once you know how to do it, it's no
big deal, but MAN, did I sweat in the process...
I'm just using the regular text input box which is used elsewhere. It
automagically remembers it's last argument so it's great for this. How
this automagic works is pretty obscure at first, though. Arthur C.
Clarke wrote once (something along the lines of): "good technology is
indistinguishable from magic". Well... then Scheme's contorted
(elegant? evil? beautiful?) ways are technology of the greatest kind.
Rants aside... I'm now faced with the problem that this new search is
no longer incremental, which sucks if you are used to it.. So I have
to investigate how to use the footer text input in "wholly
interactive" mode (i.e. return every keypress).
Can we try what you have so far?
Help is of course welcome.
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 19:16, Sam Liddicott <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I like having the mode always active, but I will comment that
gnome3 is going the way of NOT having a search dialog box - the
search options are selected with right-click properties on the
search status bar inset.
However search-next always is active.
Sam
On 17/07/11 17:48, Miguel de Benito Delgado wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the feedback.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:42, Jan Lellmann
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
I think the best option would be to have
"search"/"search/replace"
dialogs. There one could implement all kinds of useful
features,
like "search backwards" and "case sensitive" checkbox,
"previous
match" button, regular expressions mode etc.
I assume Joris had some reason not to implement one of those
dialogs (or maybe was it just a quick hack?), so although I
also miss them I think it'd be better to have them as an
extra. I'll think about it and maybe start a new thread here
some day.
This seems to be the quasi-standard now under all OSes, and the
current Texmacs implementation is really annoying for anything
else but searching for simple terms that only occur once.
I agree it could be better. But you can use "Find next" now...
For long documents, I always close the document and do the
search/replace in a plain text editor on the .tm file.
I do exactly the same thing.
So as a start, I'd strongly vote for keeping the shortcut
always
active..
Vote noted. It's 2 - 0 now.
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