[Anjuta-list] Re: [Anjuta-devel] Search/Replace Misses First Match

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 22:22, Roy Wood wrote:
> I appreciate having search/replace automatically insert the currently 
> hilighted selection as the "Search For" target.  I've got things set up 
> so that anjuta should search from the cursor, rather than the beginning 
> of the file I'm editing.  Unfortunately, this means that it misses the 
> currently-hilighted selection.  It finds all the following matches, but 
> not the first one.
> 
> Would it be presumptuous of me to call this a bug?
> 

I think that's my fault. I (incorrectly) assumed that most people will
prefer to search from the top *by default*. Therefore, I have made the
default to "search from top" rather than "search from cursor". We can
change the default in next release (not 0.1.9).


> And would it be presumptuous of me to suggest having some sort of menu 
> option and/or hotkey to enter the current selection as the search text?  
> That sort of functionality would allow me to enter the search text, 
> possibly move around, and then do the search.  For this to work well, I 
> suppose it would be advisable to have a preference to control whether the 
> current selection is automatically entered as the search target....

This one needs little thinking.... :)

-- 
Regards,
-naba

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom.  The first is being a
bore.
		-- Cecil Beaton


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