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QPad Text Editor
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How to search and replace? #2

Open houtianze opened 6 years ago

houtianze commented 6 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the beautiful editor.

However, I tried several times, but I still haven't figured out how to perform replacing instead of searching with the editor. How can I do that? Maybe you want to reconsider the UI and make this more obvious/give more hints? Thanks.

HouQiming commented 6 years ago

To replace something, just select one instance of the text you want to replace and type the new text. Then three buttons (replace previous, replace all, replace next) will appear to the left of the editing area. Click them (or preferably, press the hotkeys CTRL+D / ALT+A / SHIFT+CTRL+D) to replace more instances of text.

I did try to give more hints... if your frame rate is high enough, the buttons should shake a bit when they appear. I guess their placement could be more intuitive though. I'll see what I can do with the UI.

Thanks for your support!

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Hi,

Thanks for the beautiful editor.

However, I tried several times, but I still haven't figured out how to perform replacing instead of searching with the editor. How can I do that? Maybe you want to reconsider the UI and make this more obvious/give more hints? Thanks.

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houtianze commented 6 years ago

I see. Thanks for the detailed explanations. Maybe I'm just too used to the "replace" text box appearing together with the "find" text box.