Re: Find dialog -- WDSCI-L

I have a feeling the actual search was working just fine (under the coverers) even before the last patch.
It was just hitting the issue where the Editor View isn't updated with every action performed.
Some features like "find-all" required two actions before the Editor view was actually updated to show what was being searched for.

It's good to know that IBM chose to just disable the feature rather than fixing the other bug.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maha Masri
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:23 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find dialog

Hello Stuart,

What you are describing is "stream" selection.
Could you please check that it actually worked in the previous version as I think it gave the impression of working but did not actually do what you would expect.
That is why we have explicitly disabled it. Understandably, this is not ideal, but it is something that we would prioritize as a feature to support via the RFE:
RFE77455: Make ctrl-f function the same way in both block and stream
modes
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=77455

Thanks,
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From: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/27/2016 09:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find dialog
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure what "stream" or "block" means.

I used to place my cursor in the left-most position of a line, hold shift key and press down arrow a number of times (like in Notepad). This resulted in a selection of several lines in the editor. Then I would ctrl-F and limit to selected area and it sure did work just fine until I updated to this last update. Is that "stream" or "block" selection?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Maha Masri <masri@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,
There were two RFEs open for enhancing the Find dialog:
RFE77455: Make ctrl-f function the same way in both block and stream
modes

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=77455

RFE77454: Change ctrl-f to function like eclipse find

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=77454

The implementation in RDi 9.5.0.3 only supports "Restrict search to
selection" with Block selection mode (Alt+R, Alt+L).
We have disabled the "Restrict search to selection" in stream
selection mode, because it is not yet supported and it was not
supported in the previous version either.

We understand that Stream mode is the more common and preferred way to
select text as you do not have to remember to press Alt+U.
If you would like to have the full support please vote for the "RFE77455:
Make ctrl-f function the same way in both block and stream modes".

Thanks,

____________________________________________________________________________

Maha Masri
Rational Developer for i - Rational Developer for AIX and Linux -

Rational

Developer for Power

From: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/25/2016 08:57 AM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Find dialog
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied the latest update.

I see RFE77454 but I do not know what "like eclipse" means since I do
not use eclipse.

Used to be when I selected some text and pressed ctrl-f, I could check

the

"restrict search to selection" box to limit the subsequent "replace all"

that area. Now, the box is greyed out.

The find dialog seems to change with every update. Can someone
explain what "selection" means now and how I can effectively select
text so that

can use that checkbox? I can find no description of the settings for
selecting text like "block" "stream" etc in the help, only that I
should select one or the other.

I did some more experimenting and found that if I select some text ON
ONE LINE only and not including the EOL, the checkbox is available
(but

really

less than useful in that context). Selecting more than one line of
text makes the checkbox unavailable.

Using ALT-R to select a rectangle of text (of any size) enables the
checkbox and forces the checkbox to be checked. It is uncheckable.
The selected rectangle is persistent in this case.

I spose I could do all my selections with ALT-R but it's a pain to

remember

to ALT-U every time.

Stu
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