Rather than changing the existing oft-repeated operation (which I would loathe to see happen) could you have: [Find] [Replace] [Replace Once] I don't think I've been burned by this myself, but I can see that it would be useful. . . . . . . . Ken At 2014-05-28 13:23 -0400, David Sewell wrote:
I wonder if other oXygen users would find this enhancement useful:
In the Find/Replace dialogue, instead of two buttons:
[Find] [Replace]
have three buttons, perhaps called
[Find] [Replace] [Replace and Find Next]
"Replace and Find Next" would have the identical behavior that the existing Replace button has. But the "Replace" button would do the replacement and stay on the current line.
The rationale: very often, when constructing a complex regular expression replacement, I want to be sure that the replacement does what I want. If I just hit "Replace", the cursor moves to the next occurrence (if there is one). So it is necessary to do one of these two things:
1) do the replacement, then do Undo to get back to the replacement line, then Redo to see the replacement; or
2) toggle "Only selected lines" before doing the replacement, then change it back to "All" to continue replacing
Having the additional button would remove the need for one of those steps.
I realize that this would be a rather big UI change and might possibly confuse people, but I thought I would see whether anyone else agrees,
David
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