Re: Feature request: find-and-replace within selection

2010-03-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > My beloved Jed text editor has a generic "narrow" feature that limits > all editing operations to the current selection until undone by "widen". > (I think this originates from Emacs.) This sounds like it could be implemented as: 1) Copy sele

Re: Feature request: find-and-replace within selection

2010-03-07 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi lyx-devel, Hello, no need to file another trac request, there's already one (#2548) . . . http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2548 It would be useful to support this feature because we could perform a replace-all within a selection and quickly achieve the desired

Re: Feature request: find-and-replace within selection

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-05, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: > It would be useful to support this feature because we could perform a > replace-all within a selection and quickly achieve the desired result > without clobbering the rest of the document. Agreed. But maybe better making this even more generic: My bel