@guy038 said in Search++: A work in progress:

This still one point that’s a bit unclear to me : what is the fundamental difference between all these options, when compared in pairs :

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Count Before vs Count Before in Whole Document Count After vs Count After in Whole Document Find All Before vs Find All Before in Whole Document Find All After vs Find All After in Whole Document Select Before vs Select Before in Whole Document Select After vs Select After in Whole Document Mark Before vs Mark Before in Whole Document Mark After vs Mark After in Whole Document Show Before vs Show Before in Whole Document Show After vs Show After in Whole Document

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Replace All Before vs Replace All Before in Whole Document Replace All Aftrt vs Replace All After in Whole Document

Now that I think about it some more, it seems like I could simplify this by removing all the Before and After search commands that don’t include a scope (in Selection, in Marked Text or in Whole Document). I don’t think anyone is going to want to make a before or after command the one-click action for a button; and otherwise, once you have to select from a menu anyway, why not select what you mean instead of selecting something that’s going to infer what you want?

Thanks again, Guy, for looking at this so carefully and pointing out the confusing and redundant parts.

If no one thinks it’s a bad idea, I’ll probably remove the unscoped Before and After searches in the next release.

@robstoddard ,

Personally, I just have a file named Peter's Scratchpad.txt that’s always open, where I paste things like that (and, admittedly, things that started like that but have just stayed around in that file for a lot longer than originally intended). And if I save the “temporary data” in the file, who cares? I just delete the stuff out of the file that I don’t need anymore when I don’t need them anymore. That way, I can just Save All or use the Auto-Save plugin as much as I want, without having to ask for a specific feature to “not save this one thing”.