I would like to add here that neither Notepad, nor Visual Studio nor Eclipse nor Vim change the selection when the search text could not be found. Instead, they pop up modal dialogs, play an exclamation sound and/or display "pattern not found" at the bottom. So at least, it is not consistent with "the outside world" at the moment. The flash would be an unintrusive indication of that state, although its meaning only becomes clear on second thought for first time users (Well, what was that? Ah, probably there are no more occurrences.), unlike in the other editors.
Since not everyone likes modal dialogs and there is no general status line in Squeak's text morphs, another alternative could be to insert "no more occurrences found" (or likewise) at the cursor position and make that selected (like the "Nothing more expected ->" which appears before unbalanced brackets when you Do or Print something in a workspace) and have it removed with the next interaction (probably complicated to implement). But I am quite sure someone will find this disrupting as well (not even sure about myself), so maybe just take it as a brainstorming idea...
Is there a default means for non-disrupting UI notifications in Squeak? Marcel's Vivide has short text messages appear briefly in the lower right corner of a widget when list filtering yields no more results or is cancelled. I could imagine something like this for search string not found as well.
Best regards, Jakob
2015-12-28 17:29 GMT+01:00 Taeumel, Marcel Marcel.Taeumel@hpi.de:
I think we should keep the interaction model consistent and simple. "Find again" selects the next match or nothing if nothing matches. Modifying that might break the (in-place) search/replace behavior.
What about doing both: clear the selection *and* flash?
Best, Marcel
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