I waited until I had the 9.0 version in hand to try to make this comment. I use another editor that also has a non-modal Search/Replace dialog, really quite similar to the BBEdit 9 dialog, but with an important enhancement that takes care of the problem that seems to have vexed a lot of users.
Please take a look at this dialog: http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Image:Guiguts_SR_multi.png The most important feature here is the button "Start at Beginning" -- if you click this button before you click Search: 1. The search begins from the top of the document, and 2. The button is cleared immediately so it is no longer set when you click Seach (or type ^g) again. This works very well. If you are using the mouse to interact with the dialog, "start at top" is just one click away. If instead you are using the keyboard to interact with the document, you use a keystroke to "go to top" before hitting ^g to search. It seems to me this takes care of any "conflict" between a Start at Top button and a non-modal dialog. Just clear the damn button after each use! Another feature worth noting in this dialog: there is not one but THREE replace-strings (enabled when the "multi" button is clicked). This turns out to be very handy especially when doing regex searches. Often you want to replace some instances with one thing and other instances with another thing. You set up different replace strings and just alternate the mouse between the different "R&S" (replace and find again) buttons. (Much faster than selecting different replace strings from the recent-replace popup, tho this editor has those as well.) Features BBEdit should NOT emulate: this editor has Reverse search as a modal button; "Previous/Next" buttons (ctl-[shift-]G) is much preferable. Hope this is interesting, Dave Cortesi (the editor in question is probably not of any use to most readers of this list, but the source is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/guiguts/) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
