I agree with Steven. I work a lot with "Saved Search Sets" and tend to ignore "Recent Folders". It's frustrating to check a saved set only to find that I am searching the previous selected saved set as well (even though it isn't checked). Suggestion: Make "Add Previous Search to Current Search" a Preference setting that can be turned on and off.
-Steve On Oct 27, 6:19 pm, Steven Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/27/08 13:40, "Patrick James" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't follow this point you have raised. It is quite possible I have > > misunderstood. I have 9.0.2 (1342) and for me the selection of files > > tosearchin the Multi-File:Searchin dialogue is by check boxes and > > I would expect them to add selection to any currently selected ones. I > > might very well have interpreted this wrongly of course. > > Maybe this will explain it better. > > Because the new Multi-FileSearchnow does not close after eachsearchany > Recent Folders you have previously selected remain selected if you go back > to perform anothersearch. In v8 and before the window closed and upon > reopening deselected all SavedSearchand Recent Folders so this wasn't an > issue. As a result in v9 if you select another SavedSearchitem it is > ADDED to the previoussearchparameters. > > IMHO this behavior is counter intuitive. Simply selecting another > SavedSearchor even another Recent Folder item should deselect any existing > checked items. We all know (and have come to expect) that if we > command-click on items in a folder even non-contiguous items can be selected > (added to the list of selected items). Even multiple-select HTML elements > behave this way. If we simply click on items in the directory each item > will deselect any previously selected items. This is the behavior I would > expect to find in the newSearchin: dialog. To select multiple items you > need to hold down the command key (sorry I called it the option key before). > > I realize that in theSearchin: dialog they are checkboxes but the paradigm > is so similar that it seems counter intuitive to me know and especially so > when you consider that to deselect all items except the one you have > selected you need to hold down the command key! > > Does that make any more sense? I know it is a small point but if you were > accustomed to how things worked in v8 and you do a Replace all thinking you > are only operating on one folder when in fact you are operating on multiple > folders the operation can be catastrophic. > > Beyond that the behavior of v9 issearchdependent. Only if yoursearch > returned a result does the SavedSearchget deselected and the equivalent > Recent Folder selection automatically selected...! The automagic > de-selection and creation of a Recent Folder item is hard to deal with > because you need to remember what path your SavedSearchitem points to in > order to back translate the path. The Recent Folder item creation when a > SavedSearchitem is selected isn't completely different from v8 but it is > different in that in v8 the Recent Folders were created at the moment the > Saved Seach was selected and not dependent on whether thesearchwas > successful or not. > > Finally, the SavedSearchitems in v9 are not alphabetized as they were in > v8 and before; simple organization and something I had come to depend on. > IMHO the whole experience of the new Multi-FileSearchis messy and > non-intuitive. > > make sense? > > Steven --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
