Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace
Chipp Walters
chipp at chipp.com
Tue Jun 28 23:53:14 EDT 2005
Hi Timothy!
Timothy Miller wrote:
> In spite of the welcome patch, "find" in the message box searches all
> the field text in the stack almost instantaneously. The "find" in the
> find-and-replace window, searching for field text only, in "this stack"
> only, takes 100 to 1000 times as long. That just don't seem right.
>
> It still seems to me that a "stop searching" button on this window would
> be a welcome addition, unless it can be made to work so fast that none
> would be necessary.
The reason for no 'stop searching' button, is that typically searches
are so fast you don't need to have such a function. In fact, *when
working properly*, I've never had more than a couple seconds of
searches, even when searching through 50,000 lines of code.
best,
Chipp
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