[Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Michael Toomim <toomim ocf berkeley edu>]

Dan Zlotnikov wrote:

> Next, something that's always bothered me about those search windows. Is
> there a situation in which the user would prefer to have no results
> returned, rather than have the search auto-wrap?

Yes.  Say, for instance, that a user wants to find out if there are any 
sentences about fancy cars in a set of documents.  So she clicks find, 
types in "car", and clicks "find next" until she sees a match for "car" 
in a sentence that talks about them being fancy.  In this situation, 
she'd like to stop when she's visited all references for the word "car", 
so that she knows that none of the matches were what she was looking for.