survey: Incremental search usefulness

asvc

Has there been any traction on incremental search with regexp support?

I went through the NPP’s GitHub page and the Issue #8248 was last updated a month ago.

That being said, it reads like @sasumner is now slightly less critical of the idea :)

Ekopalypse

@asvc said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

Has there been any traction on incremental search with regexp support?

Not that I’m aware.

cmeriaux

@asvc I’m affraid that the war has been lost, the feature won’t be implemented.
I’m sorry

asvc

That feeling when you want to use a text editor, but it actively refuses to be used… I will try to poke @sasumner at GitHub one last time.

asvc

When one door closes, another opens. Let’s try with the fork: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/issues/4

Alan Kilborn

@asvc said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

the fork

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

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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