Re: Request: new command: cmcSearchAgainBackward

[Thiago F.G. A. <tf...@te...>]

Old thread...

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:

> Ok, about this "UltraEdit" feature:
>
> I added what I understood from Sergio's description ;-)
> Please try the CVS code and tell me if that's more or less what you want.
>
> The new commands are called:  cmcSearchSelForward and  cmcSearchSelForward.
> They have menu entries in the "Search" menu, but no shortcut yet.
> Not yet documented because they could change.
>
> I coded them in a way that they shouldn't interfere with ^Q+F/^L.
>
> A lot of details remains to be adjusted like:
> 1) I implemented it as a case sensitive search, but it could be case 
> sensitive only for case sensitive languages or just don't be case sensitive. 
> I'm not sure what's best.
> 2) I'm starting from the other end of the file when the search fails. This is 
> silently done and as the text comes from a selection the second search *must* 
> be successful so I never inform things like "not found".

Ok, but I'd like to see something along the lines of "search wrapped, 
continued from [ TOP | BOTTOM ]" in the status bar.

2) 'Whole words only' should be turned on.

3) When there is no selection, select the current word. I implemented this
with macros, but maybe this could be part of the behaviour of the command. 
In case anyone is interested:

(defmacro 'SearchSelForward'
  (progn
   (if (not (SelectionExists))   (SendCommands cmcMarkWord))

   (SendCommands cmcSearchSelForward)
  )
)

(defmacro 'SearchSelBackward'
  (progn
   (if (not (SelectionExists))   (SendCommands cmcMarkWord))

   (SendCommands cmcSearchSelBackward)
  )
)

Maybe this whole stuff can be implemented entirely in sLisp, now that we 
have the commands FindString and FindAgain.

-- 
Thiago F. G. Albuquerque

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