Find and Replace
Posted: 24 Oct 2013 18:12
I have had for a halve year a notebook with touch screen and Windows 8. The computer has a large "hypersensitive" touchpad (difficult to find the right adjustment) which causes that sometimes the cursor "jumps to unwanted locations" if I am not careful when moving hands over the touchpad.
I have had a couple of times troubles with this VIP's Find and Replace form. Mostly I use the function to search some string in the code (= simply needing the Find "part"). Sometimes, when I believe having the focus in the window in which I happened to need the search, but the focus is still in the Find and Replace form. Then when I begin to write and press for example the letter A all the points where the search string exists are replaced with a empty string, which is the default in the replace field. If I do not notice what happened and use the undo in time it can cause confusion and rather needless extra work.
Maybe it would be worth considering in future versions using separate forms for the pure Find function and the Find/Replace function.
I have had a couple of times troubles with this VIP's Find and Replace form. Mostly I use the function to search some string in the code (= simply needing the Find "part"). Sometimes, when I believe having the focus in the window in which I happened to need the search, but the focus is still in the Find and Replace form. Then when I begin to write and press for example the letter A all the points where the search string exists are replaced with a empty string, which is the default in the replace field. If I do not notice what happened and use the undo in time it can cause confusion and rather needless extra work.
Maybe it would be worth considering in future versions using separate forms for the pure Find function and the Find/Replace function.