On 5 Sep 2016, at 17:18, Matt Neuburg wrote:
This is non-trivial since the Find and Replace fields are system controls
Okay. How about in the display of what the replaced results will look like? We seem to be in control of that, right enough.
Correct, the search results are (in theory) possible to customize however we want.
Though I am not sure what problem we are trying to solve here.
Was the problem with a trailing space in the replace text field? Or possible two spaces when only one was desired?
Would you want the “Show Invisibles” limited to only the match/replacement string (in the search results)? As I assume if we render all invisibles, it’ll look rather busy.
As mentioned earlier, the current nightlies have a background color for the match/replacement, I’ve attached a capture where I put 3 trailing spaces in the replace field. To be honest, I am not sure rendering them as dots in the search results would make it that much clearer, that there is too much space (but then, I also use a monospaced font for search results).
