Hello, @coises,
Preamble :
What prompted me to suggest another solution is that you seemed really frustrated with how your plugin works, since you said, among other things :
What bothers me is that before you click the button, it’s not obvious what the current default scope will be
and also :
I don’t like any of my ideas. (For that matter, I don’t like my scope and extent icons, either. The arrows are OK, but as for the rest, I tried everything I could come up with and I still think they’re obscure, confusing, ugly and hard to read.)
Even though I’ve been using Notepad++ for at least 15 years, I’m just a former retired technician with some knowledge of Unix and Microsoft QBasic. So, if I took the liberty of suggesting another solution, it was solely because of your own dissatisfaction !
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have written this post, since you’re surely better equipped to figure out how to improve your Search++ plugin !
That said, I’ll try to address some of your points. You said :
Dialogs are even more of an interruption than menus. It would also defeat the purpose of a docking dialog
Now that I think about it, I actually agree with you ! And, indeed, I forgot to consider the Docking dialog !
Now, regarding the mandatory buttons in this new dialog, we could, of course, add a Define and Run button.
Then, any of the four buttons Define, Run, Define and Run and Cancel would close that new dialog and run the chosen action if you have clicked on the Run or on the Define and Run button
Anyway, as you said, menus seem preferable. However, I still think that a layout with the six buttons Find, Count, Find All, Select, Mark and Show could be easier to use ( Personally, I’m ready to test a forked version, if you think it’s worth it )
This would simplify the number of menus :
The Find, Count, and Replace All menus would stay unchanged
I would suppress the last Do not jump to next match option, in the Replace menu as well as its sub-menu. To my mind, it’s rather a global way of searching which can be previously chosen in the Tools dialog with the Jump to next match after Replace option ( Ctrl + J )
Thus, a click on the Replace button would just show this menu :
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Replace
Replace backward
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Replace in Selection
Replace in Marked Text
Replace in Whole Document
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Replace Backward in Selection
Replace Backward in Marked Text
Replace Backward in Whole Documen
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A click on the new Find All button would only show this menu :
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Find All
Find All in Open Documents
Find All in Documents in this View
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Find All in Selection
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Find All in Marked Text
Find All Before in Marked Text
Find All After in Marked Text
Find All in Marked Text in Open Documents
Find All in Marked Text in this View
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Find All in Whole Document
Find All Before in Whole Document
Find All After in Whole Document
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A click on the Mark button would show this menu :
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Mark
Mark in Open Documents
Mark in Documents in this View
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Mark in Selection
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Mark in Marked Text
Mark Before in Marked Text
Mark After in Marked Text
Mark in Marked Text in Open Documents
Mark in Marked Text in this View
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Mark in Whole Document
Mark Before in Whole Document
Mark After in Whole Document
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A click on the Select button would show this menu :
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Select
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Select in Selection
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Select in Marked text
Select Before in Marked text
Select After in Marked text
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Select in Whole Document
Select Before in Whole Document
Select After in Whole Document
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A click on the Show button would show this menu :
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Show
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Show in Selection
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Show in Marked Text
Show Before in Marked Text
Show After in Marked Text
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Show in Whole Document
Show Before in Whole Document
Show After in Whole Document
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You said, at the end of your post :
Additionally, in the Settings dialog you can uncheck Default commands automatically search within selections. and Default commands automatically search within marked text. to disable the adaptive mechanism, so that default scope is always Whole Document and even if you select a plain command (Find, Count, etc.) Search++ will never infer anything other than Whole Document.
But, even though I unckecked, both, the Default commands automatically search within selections and the Default commands automatically search within marked text options and valid the new settings with the OK button, after selected some text containing ONLY one occurrence of the search, the Count in Selection still give 1 match only and not the totality of the matches of the current file
Then, using the Add Selection to Marked Text option to mark all the selection raange ( Ctrl + M ), again, the Count in Marked Text returns 1 match, instead of the totality of the matches. Is this expected or a bug as the scope should be Whole Document ?
Best Regards,
guy038
