On the other hand, if I wanted to see how many times I had over used a phrase in something I was writing, I would highlight “from my personal experience and in my opinion”, copy it, open the find dialog box, paste in my selected text, I would have to uncheck the find in selected text box to look for occurrences.
>From my personal experience and in my opinion, I don’t think it can be >presumed that others are going to do searches like I will. Bucky > On Sep 2, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Neil Faiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Sep 2, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Fletcher Sandbeck <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> You can toggle that setting using a key shortcut, Ctrl-Shift-s. You can see >> all the shortcuts for the Find Windows shortcuts in the Menus & Shortcuts >> preferences. Or, switch them to something easier. > > Yes, but what he was requesting was a little extra cleverness built in. > > Think about it … if you open the Find dialog and you don’t have a current > selection, the odds are near zero that you want to do a “find in selection” — > so why should you have to toggle a checkbox? > > Contrariwise, if you do have a selection, the odds are pretty good that you > want to search in the selection — so why should you have to toggle a check > box? > > Years ago, I used a text editor on Windows that actually improved on this > heuristic: it assumed that you wanted to “find in selection” if you had a > current selection that was more than one line long. My experience was that > this was what I wanted probably 99% of the time. > > Regards, > > Neil Faiman > > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit > <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit > <https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit>. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
