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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 1, 2011

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Search/Replace (Ctrl+F) Enhancement

Highlighting a section of code and then hitting Ctrl+F would cause the highlighted text to be placed into the Find text box as a new search.


Use Case:

Ctrl-F causes Find/Replace to be displayed, but with the previous search in the Find text box. This then causes the editor to reposition the code at the next occurrence of that search. Sometimes this is not I want to happen especially if I want to do a Replace.
Highlighting some new text would signal that the user wants to start a new search. Ctrl+F without any highlighting would cause Find/Replace to behave in the way it does now.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2011

    Since the solution exists in a previously released version of the product, status has been changed to Feature-Delivered.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 27, 2011

    Since there is an acceptable solution to this requirement already available in the product, this request has been rejected.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 20, 2011

    FWIW I have tried the method suggested above and it works well for me.

  • Guest
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    |     May 31, 2011

    Please let us know if the solution of defining a User key action is sufficient. This is an excellent suggestion and will allow you to press Alt+F to find the first occurrence of the selected text and then you can use Shift+F4 or Ctrl+F to find the next occurrences. This means that you have to press two different shortcuts to do the search selected. If this is sufficient, let us know. Otherwise, let us know the defaults that you would prefer.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 22, 2011

    There is an existing function very similar to what you want.
    When you have some text selected, you can find it through the context menu:
    Selected --> Find selection.

    You could also assign that action to a keyboard shortcut.
    In preferences: LPEX Editor --> User key actions
    set the key you want, for instance a-f (alt0-F) and choose findSelection as the action and click on the Set button.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 1, 2011

    We currently have the abilibty to just search the selection by clicking the "Restrict search to selection" box. Doing as you suggest is probably not feasible without removing this feature. I use the "Restrict search to selection" box rather frequently and would not be happy to see it removed/disabled
    A solution for you that you might try is to select the text that you want to find, press Ctrl-C (copy the selection), press Ctrl-F (start the find function), and then press Ctrl-V (paste the selected text) which does a find on either the entire member or just the selection depending on the "Restrict search to selection: box. Of course these same functions can be performed using the menu but I find the shortcut keys easier.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 1, 2011

    We currently have the abilibty to just search the selection by clicking the "Restrict search to selection" box. Doing as you suggest is probably not feasible without removing this feature. I use the "Restrict search to selection" box rather frequently and would not be happy to see it removed/disabled
    A solution for you that you might try is to select the text that you want to find, press Ctrl-C (copy the selection), press Ctrl-F (start the find function), and then press Ctrl-V (paste the selected text) which does a find on either the entire member or just the selection depending on the "Restrict search to selection: box. Of course these same functions can be performed using the menu but I find the shortcut keys easier.

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