Buck,
Yes, I also map F3=Find Next, and map Shift+F3=Find Previous like NotePad++, and many other editors....
Windows>Preference>General>Keys
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Command: S-F4 Binding: F3 When: LPEX/SEU
Command: Find Next Binding: F3 When: In Windows
Command: Find Previous Binding: Shift+F3 When: Editing Text
That is the GREAT thing about Eclipse, you can map for your preference!!! <Very Cool!>
I could have sworn, when I had RDi 9.1 & did Ctrl+F it put the High-Lighted field in the find dialog....
<Puzzle-Look>
How do you have Ctrl+Shift+F in your preference, I have this:
Command: Format Binding: Ctrl+Shift+F When: PDE Editor, Editing Text, Editing Java source, etc...
Ctrl+F and Cntrl+shift+F seem to both bring up the Find dialog at the bottom of the LPEX Editor Window....
So, if my last find "XYZ", and I highlight a word, and press Ctrl+F, it immediately takes me to my last find, and it is off the page where I was trying to do a find....
That is just CRAZY...
Windows>Preference>LPEX Editor>Find Text --> Uncheck "Incremental find dialog" to stop that behavior....
So, please advise what "Command" you have the binding of Ctrl+Shift+F in your key preferences. Maybe that would help me out...
Thanks!
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:09 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find text in RDi 9.1.1
On 12/19/2014 12:14 PM, Ken Killian wrote:
EVERY other EDITOR on the PLANET, at least HIGH-LIGHTS the replace field, so you can very quickly over type it....
MS Studio, NOTEPAD, NotePad++, Word, Outlook, PSPAD, ECLIPSE, IntelliJ IDEA, etc...
Just has always struck me as strange that LPEX does not work like every other FIND & REPLACE.
Very basic usage, which I would EXPECT automatically, but it is not there...
<frown>
So I'm with you regarding tab order. I never, and I mean never use a find dialogue to find something. I assign Ctrl-Shift-F to findSelected and I use that. In Notepad++ I use Ctrl-F3. And so on. I despise editors that force me into a dialogue to do a simple text search.
That means I when I use the find dialogue I'm really using a REPLACE dialogue. And the RDi REPLACE dialogue really needs the tab order revised to go Find, Replace. The check boxes I could care less about - they can be selected by Alt-key combinations as they are now. (This putting of the check boxes into the tab order is a feature of almost every editor). Is there anyone who actually tabs through to say, Whole word, presses Space and then tabs to Replace All? In any editor?
[for searching]
Yes, I am force to do the following:
HIGHLIGHT
Ctrl+F10 (context Menu)
Selected
Find Selection
I have Ctrl-Shift-F set aside for this. Like you, for simple searches, why use a dialogue?
PS. I do like the up & down areas to get the previous search. That is cool. But, when I high-light and control+F, that should be place in the find box!!!
Is this too hard to code it that?
So I never had a strong opinion on this, mostly because I use the find dialogue for replacement. Almost no editor puts the selected text into both Find and Replace boxes, and honestly, the replacement text is almost always related to the find text. Changing ADDR1 to ADDR2, that sort of thing. So I've spent my life selecting, copying and pasting that selection into BOTH boxes.
Please name me ANY OTHER EDITOR that DOES NOT Use the HIGHLIGHTED field for FIND???? Did I miss one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors
<tongue in cheek>
I am composing this in Thunderbird, which doesn't do that.
I'll grant you that TBird isn't really a programmer's editor, but finding highlighted text isn't as ubiquitous as I'd like. Then again, there's an editor in every darned thing these days - email client, web forum, comment sections, Wikipedia... Think about the compromises we accept in the name of convenience. That is, instead composing a reply in a decent editor, then pasting into a raw text box, we endure Wikipedia's quirks because adjusting the formatting after pasting is worse than composing in their goofball 'editor'.
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--buck
'I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion' - Jack Kerouac
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