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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