How can i prevent NPP to add any text by itself in the search string ?

Александр Сухоруков

hi all. While trying to use find function there is a text added at the search string. This text is from the cursor area, whenever this text was selected it always at the search string if there is a text near the cursor. How can i prevent NPP to add any text by itself in the search string ?

Claudia Frank

@Александр-Сухоруков

How can i prevent NPP to add any text by itself in the search string ?

Natively, afaik, you can’t - at least at the moment.
But may I ask you why this is an issue at all?
Because when the dialog opens, the find part is highlighted/selected, which means
as soon as you start typing it overwrites the text.

Cheers
Claudia

Александр Сухоруков

Yes, you right. Thank you. Don’t know why this window confused me, selected text the reason inserting text should not be a trouble.

Yaron

Hello Claudia and @Александр-Сухоруков,

But may I ask you why this is an issue at all?

The user may often want to use the last search-term and not the current word.
Personally, I find the Incremental-Bar behavior more convenient.

A preference for this can be helpful IMO.

Best regards.

Scott Sumner

I can think of a related thing to this that annoys me. I put the caret where I want my (downward) search to start, then I press ctrl+f. Then I enter my search string and invoke Find Next. Well, I notice my search begins after the word where I wanted it to. Maybe this helps show it:

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In this search, say I wanted to find an “a” in the first word…the search finds the first “a” in the second word. I know why this is, I just find it annoying sometimes.

donho

Done in commit Make filling find field of Find dialog with selected word(s) optional:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/7a1096de5b3618bc3e6611e6c25caac952d41ae2

It will come with v7.8.3