On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:53:27 +1000 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personally I think we shouldn't rematch a replaced start of line. I > > think this is counter intuitive. Is there a reason why the current > > behaviour is better? > > > > Anyway, the reason it works as it does was because that was easier to > > implement. > > Yes I understood that, as I said the alternative is to implement the > "find all and replacel" by proper substitute function which finds the > occurrences first then substitutes them. I guess if you can do the > internal equivalent of the find all and mark command then just > substitute all marked. It might be possible to record the last start of line and prevent a rematch that way, avoiding caching. BTW, you're right that there's more important things to do, but no harm in discussing improvements IMO. > Actually it'd be nice to have an option for the > replacements to be highlighted so I could see the places it made > changes I didn't mean (does that often happen to you with change all?? > :-) Could be useful, although maybe better if the replacements were listed in the Messages window so you don't have to scroll through the whole document. Regards, Nick _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list Geany@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
