[squeak-dev] Please don't kill the in-place find feature of the former CTRL-J

Jerry Bell jdbellomm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 16:54:29 UTC 2015


I don't recall seeing that Apple Smalltalk before.   Is it available somewhere?   Does it run on a Squeak VM?

Thanks

Jerry

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Masato Sumi <sumi at seagreen.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> I'm very worry about that the new CTRL-J (aka "again") of tunk seems
> lacking very old but elegant feature of the former CTRL-J, "in-place
> find" function.
> 
> When you just inserted text at a caret, the former version of CTRL-J
> (or select "again" from yellow-button menu) sets the text as a search
> key then delete it and then select next found text.
> 
> I prefer and everyday use this feature because it make me find the
> text very seamlessly.
> 
> I know my English is too bad to explain about this feature, so I made
> a screen-recording below. (Although it is very old Apple Smalltalk,
> you can do the same thing in current Squeak but not trunk)
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jKdn_9dKeQ
> 
> If it was my misunderstanding and the new CTRL-J still keeps this
> feature, please let me how to use it.
> 
> Thanks
> --
> sumim
> 


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