On Nov 28, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Wayne Larsen wrote:
- It's faster. Yes, maybe you only have the find dialog box open for
less than a second, but: "Ctrl-S + Partial search string" is always going to be faster than "Apple-F + Full Search String + Enter". Also launching the dialog box occasionally takes a non trivial amount of time, particularly if the app has been swapped out. Factor in people who type slower, or those people who search out that last little bit of efficiency and it makes a difference.
Yes, it is much faster.
- Launching a dialog box is unnecessary for this task -- sometimes
the dialog box obscures text that I am using for reference.
The above is why it is much faster. I cringe when forced to use a dialog box for all searching. Being an emacs user and a firefox user, these are key productivity boost when navigating some form of a text document.
- Many apps are moving towards this style, and people may be used to
this way of working. As an emacs user, the incremental search style of working was ingrained into my usage patterns, and when beginning to use TextMate I was regularly frustrated with its absence. In addition to emacs -- this style of search is now becoming default in apps, so more people may become used to this ability -- the isearch plugin for NSTextView, Firefox, iTunes, etc. Better to give those addicted to isearch their fix, rather than have them look elsewhere, right?
That all said, I've largely gotten used to working without it. Indeed other features of TextMate such as making use of code folding has replaced my constant use of isearch for jumping around within a file. But I still look forward to the day it gets added to TextMate!
Wayne
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