On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:48 PM, limodou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, limodou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have rev 450.
>>>>>
>>>>> Search > Go To Last Modified
>>>>> Help string suggestion: "Jump to the position of the last modification."
>>>>>
>>>>> Search > Find...
>>>>> Help string suggestion: "Opens Find dialog and copies selected text to 
>>>>> it."
>>>>> (one problem: the dialog doesn't have a label, although it's pretty
>>>>> obvious what it is..)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I changed to "Opens Find pane", because there maybe not selected text 
>>>> exists.
>>>
>>> But the copying of selected text is a useful feature. How can the user
>>> know about it unless there is something in the help somewhere, and as
>>> far as I know, there is nothing anywhere. I discovered the feature
>>> quite by accident, and only after years of use of Find and Find &
>>> Replace.
>>>
>>> The user will readily see that if there is no selected text that
>>> nothing will be copied. No problem, IMO.
>>>
>>
>> I think the Find and Replace are very common feature, so we don't need
>> to describe each details for them,
>
> I think you need to rethink what the help strings are for. Or I do.
> Aren't they there to help people who need it? I agree that Find and
> Replace is a common feature, but as I said before, I didn't know that
> selected text would be copied to it until I discovered this by
> accident. Why not write the help strings for people like me? Users who
> don't need help string don't have to read them. They don't get in the
> way of a user's use of Ulipad at all, do they?

Many editor has this feature, as least EditPlus will do the trick, so
I though it's not the only feature owned by ulipad. So I don't know
you know it. And I think many think should be written in document but
not help string. But you know documentation is my lack.

>
>> and just as I said, if there is no
>> selected text exists, how to say it.
>
> And just as I implied, you don't need to say it. This will be obvious
> to the user who has read in the help string that if there is selected
> text, it will be copied to the pane -- if there is no selected text,
> of course none will be copied.
>
> Dick
>



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