Monday, April 17, 2006

Improved searching

The word is already out. There will be a second searching mechanism available in the next version allowing a user to search for two things at the same time. Well, not exactly. The user may define two phrases simultaneously and use them alternatively.

This should be enough to search quickly for a specific well-used phrase occurrence right next to some rarely-used phrase. For example, you want to search for a word name after an id 12345. There are hundreds of name-s in the document byt only one such id. You want to search for ids like this repeatedly. Well, define a second search for name then find a desired id and hit second search... There you are, instead of scrolling again and again.

There is a Select to next feature, which selects all the text along the searching. This povides a quick way to select variable phrases by defining from and to. For example, you want to select all the text between two tags, e.g. <td> and </td>. Define the first search to the </td> phrase and then second search to the <td> phrase. Then, hit second search followed by Select to next.

Note: The second search does not use a dialog to enter a phrase. It is based on a search for selected text basis. There is, also, no second replacing mechanism.

2 Comments:

At 11:18, Blogger Jogy George said...

Emeditor - the one I use currently has a feature in it that highlights all "found" words! That is ... if I search for a word and there are many instances of the searched text, the cursor goes to the first instance, but all other instances are highlighted!

Got another feature request, but cannot find the appropriate place to type it in!

Cheers

 
At 17:45, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder whatever happened to the insert/overwrite feature?
I just downloaded and installed 5.3.1 betta and am very impressed with the work you've done. Thank you

 

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