Neil Hodgson wrote:
SciTE has a poor implementation of incremental search on Windows
Yes, that's why I was surprised by this thread.
and it is commented out on GTK+ (search for INCREMENTAL_SEARCH in
scite/gtk/SciTEGTK.cxx) because it is buggy. I wouldn't mind removing
the incremental search on Windows as it has bugs (it is modal and some
users are confused by how to use it) and hasn't received any patches.
I never use it, as I forget it is here, and I am not overly convinced of
the interest of this kind of search. But that's just me, of course.
I've just checked that there was a feature request for this back in 2003
(http://tinyurl.com/qtbyk) - which elicited a rather terse "I won't be
implementing this" reply, so I'm a bit hesitant to re-request it...
Terse but accurate ;-)
Reminder: this doesn't mean that Neil won't accept this feature, but
that he won't work on it... If somebody is motivated enough to improve
this, go on!
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Philippe Lhoste
-- (near) Paris -- France
-- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
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