[ENH] Find and replace (text editor)

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Wed Sep 22 07:18:45 UTC 1999


On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Tim Olson wrote:

> Bolot Kerimbaev wrote:
> > 
> > I've been wanting to perform this operation, but didn't see the user
> > interface for it (it could still be there, somewhere!)
> 
> The functionality is already there; it's just not obvious.  To perform a
> "find and replace", you first do a find (cmd-f), then type in the
> replacement over the selection.  You can then do a (cmd-j) to find and
> replace the next occurance, or (ctrl-j) to find and replace all
> remaining occurances.

It's much too intuitive :-)

It always astonishes my students if I show them how easy it is (especially
the indenting trick by selecting the line end and leading tabs and just
typing over the new indentation ...) 

  /bert





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