On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:59:59AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I do not agree with this solution. The cost have having two buttons > > outweighs the benefits of a more convenient (rarer) search backwards. > > What's exactly the cost of "having a button" compared with "having a > checkbox"?
Well, we have to consider the naming. What do you have on the button labels ???? "Find Previous" will eat space horizontally. Vertical buttons are bad, and five is even worse. Most applications use a checkbox for search backwards. And, further, you are the sort of user who would be most likely to use a minibuffer search when we get one. Searching backwards is not very rare, but it is done less often. And there is a mnemonic for it. I'm not wedded to the idea but I'm not particularly fond of the solution. regards, john
