[Qt-creator] Search and replace behavior with respect to case in editor

Harri Pasanen harri at mpaja.com
Fri Nov 30 15:52:12 CET 2012


On 11/30/2012 03:44 PM, Andre Haupt wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:31:58PM +0100, Andre Haupt wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:23:53PM +0100, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>>> It would be cool if search and replace would preserve case, in the same
>>> way as Emacs does.
>>>
>>> So
>>>
>>> Search:  testpad
>>> Replace: numpad
>>>
>>> would produce these replacements:
>>>
>>> testpad -> numpad
>>> TESTPAD -> NUMPAD
>>> Testpad  -> Numpad
>> what would it produce for "testPad" ?
>>
>> I think this is too much magic behind the users back.
>> At least that should not be default behaviour.
> Err, I missed the bonus points part.
> Still do not like it very much though.
>

In Emacs it is the default, and I remember being delighted when I first 
noticed it.

In practice it seems at least 9 times out of 10 what I want.


Harri






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