I hate the find panel
Posted: 2003-06-13 22:13:08
Okay, I think I gave some feedback to beta one saying that I didn't see why the find panel should operate like the other pallettes. I am sure you have your reasons but I really must say that the more I use the current version the more I hate nearly everything about it. First, I hate the little preview screen. I often used find to select (for example) every paragraph with the phrase "Human Factors" in it, so that I could copy them and paste into another document. Now find just selects stuff in this stupid little pane and I can't see any way to copy it (etc). This preview window is also too narrow to really see the text properly formatted. That fact is made worse by the fact that (apparently) it doesn't respect line breaks. Even more wackoness is created by the fact that you can only see what you searched because it appears in bold. Today I did a search for \s\s+ which got me back a bunch of randomly formatted text with absolutely no indication of where the multiple spaces were.
Second, it appears that you have to click Find All before you can click replace all, at least if I click on find all then change the find string and then click on replace all it replaces what I found the first time not what I told it to find the second time. Argh!
Third, try making the document shorter. Suddenly the find text field disappears. (Note this would not be a problem if find were just a pallette because you could drag it out of the pallette drawer.)
Fourth, when at some point in the future you get find to work across multiple documents again, won't it make more sense for it not to be attached to a single document the way it is now?
Okay, I think I am done ranting for now.
Second, it appears that you have to click Find All before you can click replace all, at least if I click on find all then change the find string and then click on replace all it replaces what I found the first time not what I told it to find the second time. Argh!
Third, try making the document shorter. Suddenly the find text field disappears. (Note this would not be a problem if find were just a pallette because you could drag it out of the pallette drawer.)
Fourth, when at some point in the future you get find to work across multiple documents again, won't it make more sense for it not to be attached to a single document the way it is now?
Okay, I think I am done ranting for now.