Hello *,
not sure if this is a TM problem/feature at all; but I found it there, so …
Using TM 2.0-rc.4 and Skim 1.4.26 (100) on El Capitán 10.11.6, I have an odd phenomenon concerning search strings: they persist over several programs.
Example: In TM, I type something into the “Find:” field of the search dialogue, say “test123”. Then I change to Skim, and typing Cmd-F there I see “test123”. Same effect in the other direction (search words from Skim appear in TM-search), same if I use one of the search dialogues in Skims side panes. Also same with the mail search in Apple Mail.
I find this “feature” highly annoying. Is this some new Finder thing (I skipped from 10.6.8 directly to 10.11.x) or is it some TM thing? How can I disable it?
Thanks for all hints!
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Unfortunately we've been up and down this road. This is a feature of the system. I hate it too. All applications share something called the Find Pasteboard.
https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nsfindpboard
I particularly dislike this when I switch away from TM to do a find in a different program, come back, and discover that my carefully configured search has been destroyed.
I've asked for a preference that would allow us to decouple TM's search fields from the Find Pasteboard, but this has been flatly refused.
m.
On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de wrote:
Hello *,
not sure if this is a TM problem/feature at all; but I found it there, so …
Using TM 2.0-rc.4 and Skim 1.4.26 (100) on El Capitán 10.11.6, I have an odd phenomenon concerning search strings: they persist over several programs.
Example: In TM, I type something into the “Find:” field of the search dialogue, say “test123”. Then I change to Skim, and typing Cmd-F there I see “test123”. Same effect in the other direction (search words from Skim appear in TM-search), same if I use one of the search dialogues in Skims side panes. Also same with the mail search in Apple Mail.
I find this “feature” highly annoying. Is this some new Finder thing (I skipped from 10.6.8 directly to 10.11.x) or is it some TM thing? How can I disable it?
Thanks for all hints!
-Moss-
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On 8 feb 2017, at 19:38, Matt Neuburg matt@tidbits.com wrote:
Unfortunately we've been up and down this road. This is a feature of the system. I hate it too. All applications share something called the Find Pasteboard.
https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nsfindpboard
I particularly dislike this when I switch away from TM to do a find in a different program, come back, and discover that my carefully configured search has been destroyed.
TextMate keeps a history of what you’ve search for. The button to the left of the Find text field. Perhaps not ideal but better than nothing.
If you use Alfred as an app launcher, it offers a clipboard history.
I dont use this feature much, but when I do its invaluable
On 8 February 2017 at 19:23, Jacob Carlborg doob@me.com wrote:
On 8 feb 2017, at 19:38, Matt Neuburg matt@tidbits.com wrote:
Unfortunately we've been up and down this road. This is a feature of the
system. I hate it too. All applications share something called the Find Pasteboard.
https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nsfindpboard
I particularly dislike this when I switch away from TM to do a find in a
different program, come back, and discover that my carefully configured search has been destroyed.
TextMate keeps a history of what you’ve search for. The button to the left of the Find text field. Perhaps not ideal but better than nothing.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
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Matt,
am 2017-02-08 um 19:38 schrieb Matt Neuburg matt@tidbits.com:
Unfortunately we've been up and down this road. This is a feature of the system. I hate it too. All applications share something called the Find Pasteboard.
I feared that answer. Thanks for the reference!
According to http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/78894/is-there-any-way-to-disable-mac-os-x-global-search-string-propagation this annoying “feature” has been around since the really early days, when Mac OS X was still called NextStep.
Hmm. How come that never hit me in Mac OS X 10.[3456]?
I particularly dislike this when I switch away from TM to do a find in a different program, come back, and discover that my carefully configured search has been destroyed.
\begin{rant} Exactly. I frequently switch from my TeX work file(s) to some packages’ manual PDF in Skim, searching there for something, just to find the last search string from there in the TM search after switching back. Same in the other direction. I can’t remember _one_ occasion where I found that behaviour useful. Completely useless “Feature”. \end{rant} Sorry.
I’ve asked for a preference that would allow us to decouple TM's search fields from the Find Pasteboard, but this has been flatly refused.
Why?
On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de wrote:
Hello *,
not sure if this is a TM problem/feature at all; but I found it there, so …
Using TM 2.0-rc.4 and Skim 1.4.26 (100) on El Capitán 10.11.6, I have an odd phenomenon concerning search strings: they persist over several programs.
Example: In TM, I type something into the “Find:” field of the search dialogue, say “test123”. Then I change to Skim, and typing Cmd-F there I see “test123”. Same effect in the other direction (search words from Skim appear in TM-search), same if I use one of the search dialogues in Skims side panes. Also same with the mail search in Apple Mail.
I find this “feature” highly annoying. Is this some new Finder thing (I skipped from 10.6.8 directly to 10.11.x) or is it some TM thing? How can I disable it?
Thanks for all hints!
-Moss- -- Programme sind schwer zu schreiben. Sie sollen auch schwer zu lesen sein. -- Sprichwort klingonischer Programmierer
Am 2017-02-08 um 20:43 schrieb Carpii UK carpii.uk@gmail.com:
If you use Alfred as an app launcher, it offers a clipboard history.
I’m using Launchbar, which also does that; and there are a few more apps: http://superuser.com/questions/17200/how-do-i-view-my-clipboard-history-on-os-x.
On 8 February 2017 at 19:23, Jacob Carlborg doob@me.com wrote:
TextMate keeps a history of what you’ve search for. The button to the left of the Find text field.
Yes, but I don’t want to loose and restore my search string each and every time when switching to another program just to look up something.
TM also has a history of replacement strings but those are not connected. AlphaX (and AlphaCocoa, being its next iteration) has that connection and is even able to save pairs of find/replace strings permanently. This would prove very useful in TM, too.
Obviously, AlphaX doesn’t use the Find Pasteboard at all.
Regards,
Martin Wilhelm Leidig -- SatzTeXnik — Professional TeXing and TeXnical counselling
Sorry to pile on, but, i’d like to have a longer "Filter Through Command" history.
Thanks,
Graham Heath
On February 8, 2017 at 4:11:18 PM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig ( listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de) wrote:
Am 2017-02-08 um 20:43 schrieb Carpii UK carpii.uk@gmail.com:
If you use Alfred as an app launcher, it offers a clipboard history.
I’m using Launchbar, which also does that; and there are a few more apps: < http://superuser.com/questions/17200/how-do-i-view-my-clipboard-history-on-o....
On 8 February 2017 at 19:23, Jacob Carlborg doob@me.com wrote:
TextMate keeps a history of what you’ve search for. The button to the
left of the Find text field.
Yes, but I don’t want to loose and restore my search string each and every time when switching to another program just to look up something.
TM also has a history of replacement strings but those are not connected. AlphaX (and AlphaCocoa, being its next iteration) has that connection and is even able to save pairs of find/replace strings permanently. This would prove very useful in TM, too.
Obviously, AlphaX doesn’t use the Find Pasteboard at all.
Regards,
Martin Wilhelm Leidig
On 8 Feb 2017, at 13:38, Matt Neuburg wrote:
I've asked for a preference that would allow us to decouple TM's search fields from the Find Pasteboard, but this has been flatly refused.
Part of TextMate’s appeal is that it’s a real Cocoa app that works correctly with the rest of the system, and not some cross-platform Frankenstein.
And in my experience, the history in TextMate’s Find interface is very good at restoring not only the text, but the options from previous searches.
Have to say I love this feature, find it so frustrating to not be able to do this in PHP Storm for example. CMD+E then CMD+TAB then CMD+G is hard wired in my brain…
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 17:41 Rob McBroom mailinglist0@skurfer.com wrote:
On 8 Feb 2017, at 13:38, Matt Neuburg wrote:
I've asked for a preference that would allow us to decouple TM's search fields from the Find Pasteboard, but this has been flatly refused.
Part of TextMate’s appeal is that it’s a real Cocoa app that works correctly with the rest of the system, and not some cross-platform Frankenstein.
And in my experience, the history in TextMate’s Find interface is very good at restoring not only the text, but the options from previous searches.
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