Change cyclis search implementation

[bngobngo@…]

Hi.

Would be nice if you could add a cyclic search checkbox to the find text dialog.

Today: If cursor is in middle of text and you search for a word that happend to be below cursor you find it, but you will not if word is above the cursor position.

Implementing a cyclic seach checkbox in the search dialog with default on, would make it more intuitive.

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[w.olchawa]

It works in the current version 2.6 beta. All of the searched words are found properly.

[bongobongo]

I think the current implementation in 2.6 beta is no good.

Lets say I have inserted the following text in the editor: ************************ hello

this is a test

hello

this is a test

hello **************

If I now place the cursor somewhere inside the first occurence of "this is a test" and then click the Find button, and then type "hello" in the "Find what" textbox, then this happens:

The find routine start searching first from the very beginning of the content of the editor, even if my current cursor position is not in the beginning of the text.

So first "hello" found is actually above my curren cursor postion in the text.

To me, it looks that this implementation was a "quick and dirty" fix to manage to find all the occurences of the word sought (compared to previous implementations).

************ HERE IS A BETTER IMPLEMENTATION (IMHO) **********************

1. The "find routine" should start searching from the current cursor position in the text.

2. And then, if word sought was not found untill end of editor, then it should start from the top of the editor, automatically without any questions asked.

3 And then when searched all the text untill "find routine" again comes to the place where the cursor position is, then the user should get a message asking something like this:

All text has been searched, do you want to continue searching?

If you then confirm (you want to continue searching), then the Find dialog should not close, and you should be able to continue hitting the Find button in the search dialog.

I find it truly annoying that the find routine start from the beginning of the editor if my current cursor position is somewhere else in the editor. A truly strange search implementation that is....

Just my 5c

[w.olchawa]

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