On 18. Oct 2004, at 6:49, Tobias Luetke wrote:
- If the current selection is only a single line the "search in
selection" default doesn't make much sense.
It's _replace_ in selection (Replace All Scope), so it does *not* affect normal searches. And to me it _does_ make sense. For example when I want to (un)escape stuff in a string.
Instead it would be nice if it could prefill the search field with the current selection.
I get that a lot, but to me that would be rather destructive, and Apple has cmd-e as part of the AHIG to do exactly this thing! It's Edit -> Find -> Use Selection for Find in the menus, and it works in _all_ Cocoa applications (probably also most Carbon), so get used to using it! :) It also works across applications, so you can e.g. press cmd-e in your browser, and then cmd-g in TextMate to find what you'd selected in the browser.
Kind regards Allan