RE: Find and Replace dialog question

["Brian D. James" <bjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Edmond,

My point is that while this solution works, it is cumbersome and could be
made less so by displacing the "Replace then Find" radio button with a
"Replace all with prompt" radio button that basically built and executed the
change command that Buck posted earlier. Other than for simulating a
prompted replace, what else do you use the "Replace then Find" radio button
for?

Also, by creating this new "Replace all with prompt" radio button you
wouldn't have to leave the "Cancel after find" box unchecked all the time
and therefore, you wouldn't need to go and CANCEL the dialog box after each
find or find/replace session. It takes 3-4 key strokes to cancel this dialog
box depending on whether the last action was a FIND or a REPLACE (no Alt-C
shortcut here). The alternative is to take your hand completely off the
keyboard and grab the mouse. Either way, it's not very efficient. I guess
one other alternative would be to not cancel the dialog box at all and just
leave it open all the time but that could be dangerous. Another possible
solution would be to have the "Replace then find" radio button ignore the
"Cancel after find" option and keep the dialog box open   until it was
manually canceled/closed.

Thanks for your insights,

Brian


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Hello Brian,

The way I have been using it for the last 10 years is to leave the "Cancel
after find" box unchecked all the time and I always use the "Replace then
find" button.
But there always infinite variations on removing the cutaneous layer of a
feline (many ways to skin the cat).

HTH

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Hello Hak,

Yes, this is a viable solution but it is a bit combersome. This solution
forces you to visit the options page every time you want to do a prompted
replace in order to uncheck the "Cancel after find" box and then again
after
you're through to re-check the box. IMHO, a prompted "replace all" is a
fairly common requirement when doing maintenance programming and from a
product usability/productivity standpoint I think a radio button on the
Find/Replace dialog box to perform a prompted "replace all" would be much
more beneficial than the first two Replace radio buttons that currently
exist.

Regards,

Brian

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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:04 AM
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Subject: RE: Find and Replace dialog question



With my limited knowledge of CODE editor, I think the most viable change
is
to leave the 'Find and Replace' prompt focused after the search. There you
can do a 'Find' then 'Replace'; 'Cancel' to exit the prompt.


Hak Lui
AS/400 AD, IBM Canada Ltd.
e-mail: haklui@ca.ibm.com



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