Retarget Atom's find and replace panel to operation on FoldingText outline model.

Just let me put my vote in on adding a simple find and replace. I just yesterday found out that FoldingText lives on in Atom (I'm still a Taskpaper user) and was delighted but I had forgotten it has a powerful but custom "filtering" instead of the highly standard Find and Replace.

You have to remember that cmd-f and cmd-g are after 20 years of Mac use, hardwired into my muscle memory. Further, I unconsciously expect that functionality in every text editing UI of more than a single line.

Moreover, while filtering is both powerful and necessary given the logical structure of FoldingText, for a target user base of programmers, not hard to understand but it is YADSL (Yet Another DSL) we've all got to throw on that teetering stack of DSLs we've all accumulated over the years.

I saw another post or comment wherein you plan to charge for the FoldingText package eventually. I think that wise because people can only do so much for free and I'm rather tired of learning and depending on a new app/function only to have it disappear because the sole programmer had a baby and no longer has the time or income slack to devote to free project. Free can get pretty expensive in terms of time lost if nothing else.

…. but not having Find and Replace would be a deal killer for me in a paid package. You're asking me to pay for a product lacking a universal function, which would in any other context be considered an outright bug, and which will likely cause me to lose time and work because I forget that this one package in this one app deviates from the standard.

Besides, it would take you, what, two hours, to bang out an alpha level function? Or one of us users could do it. I might give it shot even though my Javascript is subpar. Either way, it FoldingText Atom must have it.

Otherwise keep up your excellent work.

jessegrosjean / foldingtext-for-atom

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