Wrong presumption, Bucky ;-) I have ALWAYS felt the slight twinge of frustration that vrice mentioned, and I have always settled for using the shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-S) that Fletcher mentioned.
However, it was only today, after reading their comments, that I realized that I would rather not have to settle for this and I would be an even happier camper if BBEdit could PLEASE add this functionality. Obvious in retrospect. I’m willing to bet that many colleagues on this forum feel the same way. Thanks to everyone for having opened my eyes (and probably a can of worms for poor Rich ;-) Alfredo > On Sep 2, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Bucky Junior <buckyjunior...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <neil.goo...@faiman.org >> <mailto:neil.goo...@faiman.org>> wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 2, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Fletcher Sandbeck <fletc...@cumuli.com >>> <mailto:fletc...@cumuli.com>> 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 >> "supp...@barebones.com <mailto:supp...@barebones.com>" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:bbedit@googlegroups.com>. >> 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 > "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com > <mailto:bbedit@googlegroups.com>. > 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 "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
