Oxygen XML Forum

I suggested this a couple of years ago and was told the functionality would be added to a future release of oXygen, but I haven't seen it yet, so here is the request again.

Currently, in the Find/Replace window, clicking the Replace button makes the change and then immediately moves the cursor to the next instance of the Find expression (if any). For Find/Replace with a complex regular expression, I often want to examine each change to be sure it was correct. Currently, the only way to do that is (1) click "Find", (2) click "Scope - Only selected lines", (3) click "Replace". Then Click "Scope - All" and "Find" again to move to the next instance. That is quite slow.

If possible, could there be two buttons, maybe Replace and Replace + Find, where the first stays on the current line while the second does the replacement and moves to the next instance of the Find expression?

Hi David,

Indeed we have not yet added this button. As UI changes I would suggest a "Replace" button which would not jump to the next occurrence and a "Replace/Find" button which would also jump to the next occurrence.
We plan to release Oxygen 20.1 in a couple of weeks, after that I will try to maybe look into this, see what it would take to add this extra button.
I will update this forum thread when we manage to add the button.

Regards,
Radu

Thanks very much!