search/replace problems

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Mon Jan 7 06:04:25 UTC 2002


Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> I am noticing erratic behavior of the first four choices (find/find
> again/set search string/do it again) on the operations menu in
> workspaces at revision #4599.
> 
> In a workspace I find a string and then type in a replacement.  The I
> do the do it again item.  This deleted the next occurrence, but did
> not replace it.

I've also seen this happen before, but usually "do it again" works properly.  (It's working for me now as I test it.)

The trick here is to see if you can reliably reproduce the problem step-by-step, preferably in a fresh image.  Then, submit a [BUG] report, and there's a good chance someone will want to fix a bug like this.

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com




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