[oXygen-user] Feature request: "Replace" vs. "Replace and Find Next"

[David Sewell]

I agree with a naming proposal like Ken's -- it is better to avoid changing the 
function associated with an existing name.

David

On Wed, 28 May 2014, G. Ken Holman wrote:

> 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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