survey: Incremental search usefulness

guy038

Hello, @don-ho, @cmeriaux, @alan-kilborn, @asvc, @ekopalypse, @michael-vincent, @astrosofista, @mapje71, @terry-r and All,

In order to promote a bit the incremental search, with regular expressions I just had an idea :

Why don’t we propose to put a new setting in the config.xml file to allow this new incremental search mode ? So, by default, for non-experienced users, the incremental search would remain a classical search ;-))

I mean, in the same way that @don-ho, preserved the backward regex search with this new regexBackward4PowerUser attribute in the FindHistory tag, since N++ 7.8.7 Release 4. See my request to @don-ho, one month ago, for such a setting, in the last part of this post :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54520

Just hope you won’t find this idea too ridiculous !

Best Regards

guy038

cmeriaux

Nice fork. Qt is nicer than mfc. Too bad there isn’t a python API for plug-in because I don’t like Lua.

cmeriaux

@guy038 your idea is a good compromise but I think for a feature like this, it should be mainstream wheter be hidden through a config parameter

asvc

@Alan-Kilborn said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

Why do you think NotepadNext is a fork of Notepad++?

@cmeriaux said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

@guy038 your idea is a good compromise but I think for a feature like this, it should be mainstream wheter be hidden through a config parameter

That’s a start! It can be used to gently introduce the functionality without creating any sort of discomfort for long-term users. Then, based on feedback, setting can be exposed in GUI.

Now… How to deliver this message to @donho without annoying him with repetitive requests? :)

Alan Kilborn

@asvc said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

How to deliver this message to @donho without annoying him with repetitive requests?

Good luck figuring that one out. :-)

cmeriaux

@asvc you can write him an email, email address is available on website

James Siverson

@Alan-Kilborn Yes, this is a fact, it’s hard to argue.

James Siverson

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William4565

I need regular expression support.

PeterJones

@William4565 ,

If you have a specific question about Notepad++ regex, then create a new topic in the Help Wanted section. Don’t resurrect an old topic that isn’t specific to your question. And don’t just say you would like help: explain what you want help with.