Re: [Usability]Re: A (Re)"search" idea

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 17:37, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:

> Again, why do you need a "search forward" and a
> "search backward"?
> 
> The serial way of highlight match by match is much
> slower than showing all the matches at once.

The serial way is useful for some things, but you're right, a 'show all
matches' feature would be nice too.

One simple way to do this would just be to show all matches using the
secondary highlight colour when you pressed the 'Find' button, whilst
highlighting the current match in the primary highlight colour.  (IIRC
gvim works a bit like this.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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