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  3. September 2005

Re: Changing behavior of search in editor

Once you type a new text to find, or modify it, the search will update itself - starting from the initial cursor position when the dialog came up. In other words, you can just ignore the initial find, and type the (presumably new) text to search with exactly the same results as if the dialog waited for you.
The incremental dialog just does a 'convenient' initial find, assuming that's what a user typically does.
An option to make the dialog more passive will be provided in a future release of LPEX. 

John Taylor wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a preference available somewhere to stop the
"Find" function from immediately searching for the last entered string as
soon as it is invoked?

What I would like is to hit CTRL-F, and have the Find dialog box pop up and
WAIT for me to enter what I would like to search for, rather than having it
immediately move my source member to show a line corresponding to the last
search I've done.

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