[squeak-dev] in-place search-and-replace

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Nov 17 13:13:33 UTC 2015


Ten years, wow.

I set the issue to "resolved" in Mantis, with links to this email.

:-)

Dave

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:10:00PM +0900, Masato Sumi wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I also reported the find-again bug but about 10 years ago.
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5506
> 
> I love "again" function that is a long life Smalltalk-80's feature.
> I'm very happy to hear the bug was fixed.
> 
> sumim
> 
> 
> 2015-11-17 13:30 GMT+09:00 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
> > Squeak's ingenius solution to the search-and-replace problem has been
> > fixed and then improved.
> >
> > The way it's supposed to work is:
> >
> >   1) user selects some text
> >   2) user overtypes the selected text with new text
> >   3) then uses any combinations of cmd+g, j, or J to conduct global
> > search and replace operations.
> >
> >          cmd+g finds the next occurrence of the original text.
> >
> >          cmd+j (first press) presents the next occurrence of the
> > original text, scrolling it into view and selecting it.
> >
> >           cmd+j (subsequent press) with the original text selected,
> > cmd+j now effects the replacement and then finds and selects the next
> > occurrence of it in the text.
> >
> >          cmd+J (with Shift key) replaces all further occurrences of
> > the original text to the replacement text.
> >
> > What changed?  Before, both cmd+j AND cmd+g used to perform the
> > replacement.  Cmd+g was never supposed to do that, it was a bug,
> > Marcel fixed it so that it only does Find Next.  That fix exposed an
> > awkwardness to the legacy usage of cmd+j which renders it unable to be
> > used in conjunction with cmd+g.  Now, it can.
> >


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