I replaced text "file" with "filename", a range of lines was selected, and the "wrap around" option was selected. I pressed "replace all", and Eric proceeded to infinitely replace text, windows flashing scrollbars bouncing, but otherwise totally unresponsive. I had to kill the process and lost some work.
I have had other times that I lost control of Eric due to some unfortunate search and replace action. I would like to suggest that this is a bug, not just deserts for my own stupidity. Infinite search-replace loops can be avoided by 1) not permitting a repetitive search-replace that can match the empty string at any position; 2) advancing the repeated search point to after any replacement text; and 3) not permitting the wrap-around to wrap past the place the operation was started at. If this problem is due to some faulty external component e.g. QScintilla, perhaps eric could perhaps offer a way to asynchronously abort the operation. -- Parzival Herzog _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
