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Bug 108712

Summary:	Merge 'Find', 'Replace', 'Find in Projects' and 'Replace in Projects'
Product:	editor	Reporter:	msundman <msundman>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrojcek
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description msundman 2007-07-03 03:28:15 UTC

Instead of having four extremely similar functions there should be only one Find/Replace.
Often when searching for something you realize that you want to replace it. Equally often you want to change the scope 
of the search(&replace). Every once in a while you even want to switch from "search in file" directly to "replace in 
project" or similar. It's very convenient if all of it is controlled from one place.
E.g., jEdit uses a single find/replace window and ever since I tried it other editors' separate find and replace 
windows have felt needlessly and annoyingly cumbersome.

Comment 1 Vitezslav Stejskal 2007-07-03 10:56:06 UTC

This one is likely to need some more UI thinking...

Comment 2 Sean_Duffy 2011-02-24 20:35:27 UTC

When using the search functionality I cannot right click in the search box and paste what I have in the buffer.  This is extremely annoying.  Many programmers use both the mouse and the keyboard, not just the keyboard.

Comment 3 Milutin Kristofic 2011-07-08 14:01:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146818 ***