https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389388
--- Comment #2 from yereverluvinunclebert <dean.beed...@lightquick.co.uk> --- I really love Kate. However, I was surprised at the state of the search utility in general. I think it needs an overhaul as part of the default offering. It is all well and good to suggest a plugin but the user's first experience of Kate will be the defaults. He/she won't know how to download/install/enable a plugin nor will they even know one exists. If it is just a trial of Kate they may assume Kate is as deficient in other parts as it is in search. It isn't a good advertisement. For usability's sake search needs to be slick and all encompassing and very easy to use. It should be the norm. The methods to implement search can be demonstrated by trialling other editors. They have done it just right. I don't have any favourites as they all seem to do it the same. They just do it right. In Kate Search is so clunky as to make it unusable. I found myself reverting to other editors just to do a simple search. Searching to find all occurrences of a variable in multiple tabbed .js documents. For me, that is a simple search. I couldn't do it in Kate. As soon as you revert to another editor then Kate has lost a user forever. I think this 'minimalistic' thing as a concept is flawed. Search requires certain key functions that I think I have outlined in my bug reports. I truly think they are the minimum required to get Kate up to scratch. The other editors out there in the Windows's world are Kate's competitors and they do this stuff without batting an eyelid. Kate is lovely, search is a bit naff. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
