[plt-scheme] Replace & Find in v4.1

The replace is always available when the selection (in the window
where you'd be replacing) matches what you are searching for.
Otherwise, it is not available.

Does that help?

Robby

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ben Goetter <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:
> I have tried it, and I'm afraid it doesn't make much more sense to me.  The
> behavior - both with anchors enabled and disabled - seems inconsistent:
> sometimes the Replace commands I want are available, and sometimes they
> aren't.  I am having a very difficult time deducing the desired behavior
> here.
>
> Robby Findler wrote:
>>
>> The (perhaps only slightly) more sensical generalization of those
>> rules is that when the selection matches the search string, you can
>> replace & find (so when the search string is empty and you don't have
>> any thing selected, it will replace nothing with the replace string).
>>
>> Did you try the anchor'd search? Do you find that to be more intuitive?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ben Goetter <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On the same platform, I am observing the same behavior.  Start DrScheme,
>>> then type a little searchable gibberish into the Defs and Ints panes,
>>> then
>>> make the Find and Replace fields appear with Ctrl+f or Ctrl+r.
>>>
>>> If you have no text in the Find field, the Replace menu items are
>>> enabled.
>>> Clicking the "Replace and Find" button will then append the contents of
>>> the
>>> Replace field to the Definitions or Interactions pane, whichever last had
>>> focus.
>>>
>>> Once text goes into the Find field, occurrences of that text will be
>>> highlighted in one of the panes, and the Replace items under the Edit
>>> menu
>>> will be disabled.  Clicking the Replace and Find button then does
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Robby Findler wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did you put some text into the replace field?
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Robert Matovinovic
>>>> <robert.matovinovic at web.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I run DrScheme, version 4.1 [3m] on Windows XP and wonder where to
>>>>> activate
>>>>> Replace & Find. The button in the search dialog doesn't react and the
>>>>> menu
>>>>> items in the edit menu are grey. I looked up Preferences ... and Help
>>>>> Desk
>>>>> but I couldn't find any hint. What am I missing? If it is not a bug the
>>>>> switch should be in a more obvious place.
>>>>> Robert
>>>>>
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