On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:
I notice that, when I search for text in LyX, focus simply remains with the search/replace dialogue.
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But when the user is tweaking a large number different occurrences in different ways, having to change focus can become significant.
Daniel, I'm not seeing the problem. The search-and-replace dialog has four buttons on the right. Using 'Replace All' should make the changes from the search string to the replace string whereever the search string occurs. Or, am I not understanding the situation you describe? Rich