On Jul 14, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
At 11:58 AM -0700 7/14/2005, Mark Swindell wrote:
I just had a strange behavior I wonder if anyone can explain. I
have a card with 3 fields containing many pages of narrative text.
They are extensively formatted with linked text, colors, etc. I
used the search and replace to change occurrences of two spaces (I
learned to type long ago on manual typewriters and can't shake the
habit) to only one space. I just typed in two spaces in the find
field, and one in the replace field. I limited the find/replace
function to field text. I pressed replace, and all formatting was
lost on all three fields. Is this a bug, or a feature? I
certainly didn't expect it.
It's a "nuance" or a "design flaw", depending on how charitable
you're feeling. The replace command treats its parameters as pure
text, so if you do something like
replace "foo" with "bar" in field "Stuff"
you'll lose all formatting in the field. Replace seems to make a
copy of the target text, then do the replace operation, and then
swap the target text back into the field.
The find/replace dialog really ought to be using htmlText, I think,
although then a certain amount of conniptions would be required to
avoid replacing text in an HTML tag
It's a pretty nasty nuance, then. How's that? :)
It renders the find and replace function useless for formatted text.
And it did come as a shock, as it almost destroyed hours of work,
because it can't be undone. (No one had ever mentioned that I should
back up my stacks regularly.) This seems like a pretty big thing that
ought to be addressed by the engineering corps up in Edinborough, no?
Mark
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