[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-513025 ] Non-Modal Find/Replace

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Feature Requests item #513025, was opened at 2002-02-04 15:04
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Category: User interface
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Centgraf (centgraf)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Non-Modal Find/Replace

Initial Comment:
The current find/replace dialog is application-modal, i.e. the user cannot interact with the primary window while the dialog is open.  This is unneccessarily limiting.  Furthermore, many of the individual operations offered by the dialog could be implemented as menu options with keyboard shortcuts.  For example, the Find command could have two triggers: one would open the dialog with the search field automatically populated with the current text selection, and the second would skip the dialog entirely and execute the search.  Find Again, Replace, Replace and Find Next, and Replace All could be implemented in similar fashion.

The Find Panel offered by MacOS X (e.g. in TextEdit) is an example of these features.  (It also includes many more, such as selection-scoping for Replace All and both forward and backward searches.)  Other possible options include escape sequence support for identifying special characters, file-spanning searches, "offline" Replace All for files on disk which have not been opened, larger input boxes in the dialog, selectable case-sensitivity, and/or "live" searches (e.g. Emacs I-search).

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