Sure! I'll post a patch later this afternoon when I'm at home. Or I might commit it to the svn repository if I isolate the changes properly before. Thanks.
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Am 19.07.2011 10:32 schrieb "Sam Liddicott" <
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> 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 <
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>>
>> 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:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:42, Jan Lellmann
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>> 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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