Re: [Texmacs-dev] Shortcut for "Find next match"

[Sam Liddicott]

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.
> ________________
> Miguel de  Benito.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 19:16, Sam Liddicott <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> 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
>         <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>         <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> 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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