"incorrect" implementation if incremental search

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From: Fetherston, Tom (tfethers@FORE.COM)
Date: 14 Apr 00, 03:07 EST


From: "Fetherston, Tom" <tfethers@FORE.COM>
Subject:      "incorrect" implementation if incremental search

There is another "quick find" (a dynamic menu item -- requires holding the
option key to reveal it, or control-opt-s shortcut).

This works as you wish and also allows the use of regex'es as search
patterns.

Its use should be in the revised manual (pre-release version).

Of course it needs re-written for alpha 8 ;).

Tom



>Incremental searches (aka "quick find") don't work as they should (in my
>opinion). Deleting any characters in the search string deletes the entire
>string and leaves the cursor at the last place before the delete. This is
>almost certainly not what the user wants: it would be nice if the delete
key
>removed characters one by one and the cursor backtracked in the text in
>sync with the search string (the way it is done in emacs). The existing
>behavior makes incremental searches useless, in my opinion.


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