Re: front end complaint (ui design flaw?)
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- Subject: [mg55548] Re: [mg55539] front end complaint (ui design flaw?)
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:42:31 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, searching for anything complicated often fails. Maybe that's why Help isn't searchable. Bobby On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:16:45 -0500 (EST), Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com> wrote: > Example workflow: > Type an expression containing a comma into an input cell, say: > mydata[run1,paramB] > > Decide that the name of the expression should be different, perhaps to > differentiate it from some other data. Imagine that this same > expression occurs twenty times in the remainder of the notebook. > Decide that the find/replace command in the notebook should be useful > here. > > Highlight the text, hit ctrl+c. Use the keyboard to move the cursor to > a position above the cell. Hit ctrl+f. Erase whatever may be in the > find box. Hit shift+insert to paste the expression. Note that the > expression has a space after the comma (probably for readability when > pasting to another application). > > Guess what? The find command doesn't work because the pasted > expression does not match the copied expression. eg > mydata[run1,paramB] =!= mydata[run1, paramB] > > Lets continue.... > > Suppose that the user had not moved the cursor after the copy. > Pressing the find button will "work" because the copied text is > already selected. Let's suppose that the user also pastes the > expression into the replace cell and modifies it. After that, perhaps > the user hits "Replace All"... The first selection (the one that was > copied) will be replaced, but none of the other ones in the notebook > will be replaced. > > I think you could see how this can out of hand... At this point, the > first occurrence of mydata[run1,paramB] might be changed to > mydata[run1, paramB,typeC], while all other occurrences are unchanged. > > Solution? I dunno. A quick hack would be to check the target of the > paste (if that's possible). If the target is the find box, then the > paste should be the exact text. > > me = Mathematic 5.0 on Windows > > Regards, -- DrBob at bigfoot.com
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- front end complaint (ui design flaw?)
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson@gmail.com>
- front end complaint (ui design flaw?)