Make "Find Next" / "Find Prev" buttons an option
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My upvote for the separate “<< [Search|Replace|Replace All]” and / “[Search|Replace|Replace All]>>” buttons… maybe with the backwards button disabled if “Wrap around” is checked.
Since I saw it in 7.4.2 I really loved having the two separate buttons, I think the checkbox is simpler but quite ugly -
@Alessandro-Barbieri said:
with the backwards button disabled if “Wrap around” is checked
Searching backwards (up toward top-of-file from current caret position) and wraparound are two completely independent concepts–why do you want to join them in this way?
It is completely valid to be searching backwards and wanting to continue (the backwards search) at the end-of-file once you hit the beginning of the file.
Searching backwards IS incompatible with the regular expression search mode, and the backwards-direction checkbox should be (and is) disabled when the search mode is changed to regex, but that is the only circumstance in the Find dialog options that needs to be restricted. This is discussed more in other threads…
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Came to this forum just to let know that I LOVED << Find | Find >>, I will revert to 7.4.2 and will wait until it is restored.
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@Bas-van-der-Veeken said:
Came to this forum just to let know that I LOVED << Find | Find >>, I will revert to 7.4.2 and will wait until it is restored.
Totally agree, I just updated some of my older installs on various workstation to get the << Find Find >> buttons, and they are gone already. - Damn! Make it an option!
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@Bas-van-der-Veeken said:
Came to this forum just to let know that I LOVED << Find | Find >>, I will revert to 7.4.2 and will wait until it is restored.
Same here, gone back to 7.4.2 until << Find and Find >> appear again.
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@Bas-van-der-Veeken said:
Came to this forum just to let know that I LOVED << Find | Find >>, I will revert to 7.4.2 and will wait until it is restored.
Same here! Please restore this great feature!
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Just adding my voice to those asking for this feature to be added back in some way. Thanks.
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I suggest leaving the checkbox. But the buttons “Find >>” and “<< Find” must switch the checkbox.
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I hated the << Find | Find >> buttons, JUST ALWAYS USE FIND ALL OCCURRENCES!! ONLY EVER!!
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I rolled back to v7.4.2
the two buttons are just too useful
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I think the best solution would be to add an option in the settings to choose between the current setup and the double buttons setup
when the option is enabled,
<< Find and Find >>
will always show<< Count and Count >>
<< Replace and Replace >>
<< ReplaceAll and ReplaceAll>>should only be visible if the “wrap around” checkbox is not selected
it seems to me that this would be the solution to make everybody happy
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you have not all buttons. Your option will have to be returned again.
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add an option in the settings to choose between the current setup and the double buttons setup
Software developers are resistant to making everything super-configurable, for a number of reasons. I understand this, and agree with the philosophy. It is better to decide that a change is worthwhile and then plow ahead with it. @donho seemed to make this decision by creating the <<Find and Find>> buttons in 7.4.2. However, it seems the feature wasn’t thought fully through and had to be “backed out”, although that introduced yet another new way of doing things (a direction checkbox instead of 2 radio buttons).
<< Count and Count >>
Your idea for <<Count and Count>> buttons is intriguing, although it doesn’t take into account the existing functionality, meaning what if you want the total count–do you press the <<Count button, see the result (e.g. 5), then press the Count>> button and see that result (e.g. 7), and do the mental math to come up with the total document count (12). Seems burdensome…
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Every decent editor has Find Next and Find Previous so there is impossibility here. It’s one of the most glaring flaws with NPP.
I’ll be leaving NPP (after years of use) for VS Code until the Find Previous button re-surfaces.
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I was okay with either the two button or the toggle - but the latest version 64-bit, doesn’t seem to have either!. The tool tip on Find Next tells you to do shift enter to search up and I’m sort of getting used to it, but a lot less obvious than having something on the box. (enough to keep me from updating my other machine.)
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The toggle – if what you mean by that is the Direction group box with the Up and Down radiobuttons (present pre-7.4.2)-- was not restored in 7.5 and later (when the <<Find button design of 7.4.2 was backed out), but rather was replaced with a single control called Backward direction (a checkbox). It’s with the other checkboxes on the left side of the Find window.
Instead of toggling between two radio buttons, you just either check or uncheck the checkbox. Equivalent but different…
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Please, bring the “find prev” option back, I mean, why do I have to do 2 clicks (backward edition > next) instead of 1, this is not comfortable. Why ever removing this button? Really disappointing.
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Well, if you want to do just one operation, forget the Backward direction checkbox and the Find Next button, and simply press Shift+Enter to “find previous”, as the popup hint for the Find Next button shows :
It may be little known, but Enter by itself performs the “find next” functionality; as the *Find Next" button is the “default” button in the Find window.
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Clarification on that last bit of advice:
It should have said:
…forget the Backward direction checkbox (leave it UNTICKED) and the Find Next button…
The reason for this is that using the Shift+Enter and Enter keyboard controls respects the state of the Backward direction checkbox. To me, this is bad design: I’d rather be able to count on a specific keypress here always moving the search in the same direction.
Of course, once you’ve found the first match, moving back to the document tab window and using the Find Next and Find Previous keycombos (which always work to search downward and upward, respectively…NICE!) is probably the better option anyway.
