Search & Replace - split "in current file" into separate plugin/tab

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-01-14 22:55, Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) wrote:
> On 2022-01-14 22:52, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> (I know we had similar discussion a few years ago already).
>> I'd like to split the "Search in current file" into a separate 
>> plugin/tab.
>> 
>> For "in current file", less options would be required.
>> All the "advanced" options are not necessary, so also the button to 
>> toggle
>> between options and results is not necessary, and always the results 
>> would be
>> visible.
>> The "Search" buttin, the "Use current documents folder" button, the 
>> mode
>> combobox, the "Expand results" button, the "add new search tab" button 
>> would
>> all not be necessary.
>> I would suggest that this would always search automatically when the 
>> search
>> text is modified, without maximum file size.
>> I would also suggest that it searches automatically when switching to 
>> a
>> different file, i.e. always the search results for the current search 
>> string
>> in the current file would be visible.
>> 
>> Together with this, I would suggest to remove the "In current file" 
>> search
>> mode from the normal "Search and Replace", and also disable the 
>> automatic
>> search in the current file when typing. To me, this would actually be 
>> better
>> than it is now, since the automatic searching quite often dismissed my 
>> search
>> results, while I actually wanted to keep them.
>> 
>> What do you think ?
> 
> I am not sure about this.
> This would make the "standard" in document search even more duplicated
> with the plugin.
> But perhaps others see this differently.
> 
> My normal working pattern is:
> 
> 1) for in document searches just using the search/replace of 
> KTextEditor view
> 2) use the Kate level search plugin only for project wide searches
> 
> Perhaps others use it more like you, for both use cases.

Btw., we started to use the GitLab issues for such developer feature 
discussions,
often helps to easier integrate e.g. the VDG group or others that are 
not
really on this list, see the stuff we have on

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/issues

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
>> 
>> Alex

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