Sure! I'll post a patch later this afternoon when I'm at home. Or I might commit it to the svn repository if I isolate the changes properly before. Thanks. ___________________ Miguel de Benito. Am 19.07.2011 10:32 schrieb "Sam Liddicott" <s...@liddicott.com>: > > On 17/07/11 23:31, Miguel de Benito Delgado wrote: >> Under MacOS many applications scroll down an extra toolbar from the >> top where searches can be performed. Two nice little arrows and a >> minimalistic dropdown for options stand by its side, making everything >> lovely macish, oh... I like it better than the dialog because it >> doesn't end up in the middle of my page blocking precisely what I'm >> looking for. >> >> Because of this I've just implemented a search mode using the footer >> which remembers what you typed. Once you know how to do it, it's no >> big deal, but MAN, did I sweat in the process... >> >> I'm just using the regular text input box which is used elsewhere. It >> automagically remembers it's last argument so it's great for this. How >> this automagic works is pretty obscure at first, though. Arthur C. >> Clarke wrote once (something along the lines of): "good technology is >> indistinguishable from magic". Well... then Scheme's contorted >> (elegant? evil? beautiful?) ways are technology of the greatest kind. >> >> Rants aside... I'm now faced with the problem that this new search is >> no longer incremental, which sucks if you are used to it.. So I have >> to investigate how to use the footer text input in "wholly >> interactive" mode (i.e. return every keypress). > > Can we try what you have so far? > >> >> Help is of course welcome. >> ________________ >> Miguel de Benito. >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 19:16, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com >> <mailto:s...@liddicott.com>> wrote: >> >> >> I like having the mode always active, but I will comment that >> gnome3 is going the way of NOT having a search dialog box - the >> search options are selected with right-click properties on the >> search status bar inset. >> >> However search-next always is active. >> >> Sam >> >> >> On 17/07/11 17:48, Miguel de Benito Delgado wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> thanks for the feedback. >> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:42, Jan Lellmann >> <jan.lellm...@web.de <mailto:jan.lellm...@web.de> >> <mailto:jan.lellm...@web.de <mailto:jan.lellm...@web.de>>> wrote: >> >> I think the best option would be to have >> "search"/"search/replace" >> dialogs. There one could implement all kinds of useful >> features, >> like "search backwards" and "case sensitive" checkbox, >> "previous >> match" button, regular expressions mode etc. >> >> >> I assume Joris had some reason not to implement one of those >> dialogs (or maybe was it just a quick hack?), so although I >> also miss them I think it'd be better to have them as an >> extra. I'll think about it and maybe start a new thread here >> some day. >> >> This seems to be the quasi-standard now under all OSes, and the >> current Texmacs implementation is really annoying for anything >> else but searching for simple terms that only occur once. >> >> >> I agree it could be better. But you can use "Find next" now... >> >> For long documents, I always close the document and do the >> search/replace in a plain text editor on the .tm file. >> >> >> I do exactly the same thing. >> >> So as a start, I'd strongly vote for keeping the shortcut >> always >> active.. >> >> >> Vote noted. It's 2 - 0 now. >> ________________ >> Miguel de Benito. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texmacs-dev mailing list >> Texmacs-dev@gnu.org <mailto:Texmacs-dev@gnu.org> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> [FSF Associate Member #2325] >> <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=2325> >> >> <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texmacs-dev mailing list >> Texmacs-dev@gnu.org <mailto:Texmacs-dev@gnu.org> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texmacs-dev mailing list >> Texmacs-dev@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > -- > [FSF Associate Member #2325] > <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=2325> > > <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
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