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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Replacing Simple with Advanced Find and Replace
From:       Daniel <xracoonx () gmx ! de>
Date:       2019-04-25 14:14:25
Message-ID: q9sfc1$38hp$1 () blaine ! gmane ! org
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On 18/04/2019 14:31, Daniel wrote:
> On 16/04/2019 16:47, Daniel wrote:
>> On 15/04/2019 09:45, Daniel wrote:
>>> On 12/04/2019 19:54, Daniel wrote:
>>>> On 12/04/2019 16:22, Daniel wrote:
>>>>> This threat is an attempt to share experiences with Advanced F&R as 
>>>>> a replacement of Simple F&R. I think this might be a necessary 
>>>>> replacement due to for the user non-obvious severe limitations of 
>>>>> Simple F&R, e.g.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11462
>>>>>
>>>>> My tests are on Windows 10 1809.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) One set of problems is the limited/buggy resizing capability of 
>>>>> the Widget. The following may be related.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.1) If docked to the bottom, it takes too much vertical space 
>>>>> (cannot be resized to a reasonable size).
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.2) After it has been docked to the bottom, it takes too much 
>>>>> horizontal space when docked to the side.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.3) The undocked state (vertical or horizontal) depends on the 
>>>>> last docked state rather than the best orientation for its size. 
>>>>> For example, in the Code Preview this works much better.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) It is a universal feature of find dialogs/widgets that on the 
>>>>> command to open them (Ctrl+F or via the menu), all text in the find 
>>>>> field gets selected. This makes a lot of sense if one wants to do 
>>>>> repeated searches. (See also https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10235 
>>>>> for more details.)
>>>>
>>>> 3) At times there are multiple cursors visible: when opening Advance 
>>>> F&R for the first time, when hovering over an inset.
>>>
>>> 4) The Outliner gets locked when the cursor is in the Search or 
>>> Replace field (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11548).
>>
>> 5) On continue from the beginning, the document scrolls to the 
>> beginning when no search word is found 
>> (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11551).
> 
> 6) The space in the first line of Advanced F&R is unnecessarily limited 
> due to indentation (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11555).

7) Advanced Find and Replace overwrites format with default 
(https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11565)

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