[TextMate] some suggestions for search & replace

[Allan Odgaard]

On 18. Oct 2004, at 5:53, C J Silverio wrote:

> - Keyboard accelerator for "replace and find next". For the love
>   of god, Montresor!

What is the “standard” key for this? If there is none, I'll probably 
use cmd-option-f.

> - "Find the selection" action, with keyboard accelerator. (Yes, it can
>   be macroed, but why should I have to macro such an important action?)

Seeing how several has expected to find this on cmd-h (which is Hide 
according to AHIG), it really should be done as a macro!

It's really only grouping cmd-e and cmd-g into one key.

> - Scroll the text to keep the cursor in the "hot zone" when possible.
>   E.g., if you have to scroll to make the result of a search visible,
>   scroll enough to put the new selection in the middle of the screen.
>   Repeated find-nexts though large files always seem to end up for me
>   with the selection on the bottom-most line, with no context visible.
>   Yuck!

I choose bottom deliberately, seeing how it's easier to locate, and it 
always work (i.e. when finding something in the last 20-40 lines, it 
wouldn't be able to center it.

But I may change it -- visually highlighting the current line may help 
in that decision.

> You're probably sick of hearing this, but please reconsider adding
> an app preferences dialog. It will do two things for you:

Yes, check the archive if you want a reply.

> [...] Soft line wrap in particular is something that I definitely want 
> on some documents and definitely don't want on others. Worth thinking 
> about, anyway.

But generally wouldn't it be better just to have the soft wrap setting 
stick to the file extension instead of every individual document?


Kind regards Allan