Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:36:00PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Acroread does a forward search. If nothing is found it pops up a msg box > asking if you want to restart the search from the top of the doc. Seems > like a reasonable solution to me. Well. Mine just core dumps. And this isn't what

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:01:39PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > "<-Find" and "Find->" should be obvoius enough. The button has > label text too. Look at the layout of the dialog. And it's ugly. regards john

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread Helge Hafting
John Levon wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:59:59AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: I do not agree with this solution. The cost have having two buttons outweighs the benefits of a more convenient (rarer) search backwards. What's exactly the cost of "having a button" compared with "having a checkbox

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:23:09PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > So we could add a find-replace-backward lfun that is bound to C-r (in > emacs mode) and selects the checkbox by default. Super idea. john

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:16:12AM +, John Levon wrote: >> Searching backwards is not very rare, but it is done less often. >> And there is a mnemonic for it. Andre> In vi I have / and ? for that. So we could add a find-replac

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > In vi I have / and ? for that. > > Requiring to open a dialog is already a pain, and an additional click moves > it pretty close to being unusable. Add to that that there is no way to > replaces structers and that part of the do

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:16:12AM +, John Levon wrote: > Searching backwards is not very rare, but it is done less often. And > there is a mnemonic for it. In vi I have / and ? for that. Requiring to open a dialog is already a pain, and an additional click moves it pretty close to being

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:59:59AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I do not agree with this solution. The cost have having two buttons > > outweighs the benefits of a more convenient (rarer) search backwards. > > What's exactly the cost of "having a button" compared with "having a > checkbox"?

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:50:02AM +, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:12:18PM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > > ATM there is a checkbox for searching backwards. I think this is awkward, > > because you need two clicks. Also you always have to make sure you search > > i

Re: PROPOSAL: Seach and Replace dialog

2003-03-05 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:12:18PM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > ATM there is a checkbox for searching backwards. I think this is awkward, > because you need two clicks. Also you always have to make sure you search > in the right direction. > > How about two buttons? A button 'Search fo