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    asvc
    last edited by Jun 21, 2020, 2:19 AM

    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 :)

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      Ekopalypse @asvc
      last edited by Jun 21, 2020, 11:50 AM

      @asvc said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

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

      Not that I’m aware.

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        cmeriaux
        last edited by Jun 22, 2020, 5:58 AM

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

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          asvc @Ekopalypse
          last edited by Jun 23, 2020, 1:24 PM

          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.

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            asvc
            last edited by Jun 26, 2020, 1:00 PM

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

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              Alan Kilborn @asvc
              last edited by Jun 26, 2020, 1:14 PM

              @asvc said in survey: Incremental search usefulness:

              the fork

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

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                guy038
                last edited by guy038 Jun 26, 2020, 7:49 PM Jun 26, 2020, 7:46 PM

                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

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                  cmeriaux @Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by Jun 26, 2020, 8:56 PM

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

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                    cmeriaux @guy038
                    last edited by Jun 26, 2020, 9:01 PM

                    @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

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                      asvc @cmeriaux
                      last edited by Jun 29, 2020, 2:37 PM

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

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

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                      @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? :)

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                        Alan Kilborn @asvc
                        last edited by Jun 29, 2020, 2:48 PM

                        @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. :-)

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                          cmeriaux @asvc
                          last edited by Jun 29, 2020, 6:48 PM

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

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                            James Siverson @Alan Kilborn
                            last edited by Jul 26, 2021, 11:19 PM

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

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                              James Siverson
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