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

Harri Pasanen harri at mpaja.com
Fri Nov 30 18:16:47 CET 2012


On 11/30/2012 04:20 PM, Ziller Eike wrote:
> On 30.11.2012, at 16:04, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com>
>   wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/2012 03:43 PM, Typz wrote:
>>
>>       - I struggled with the UI to enable this feature: it is easy to
>> add an extra icon/menu in the search box, but this is not logical (as
>> it does not affect search)... Also, it seemed better to have the
>> option in the search result widget, but this did not work.
>>
>> How about just adding a global setting (checkbox) to
>> Tools->Options->Text Editor->Behavior pane?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>>             Misc                     (new section under "Typing")
>>
>> "Search and replace follows case [x]"
> I'd certainly not do that by default.
> It can simply be just another FindFlag (textfindconstants.h) that is switched like all the others (case sensitive, regexp, whole words).
> Make it exclusive without regexp and case sensitive.
>
> Or something like that ;)
>

I suppose it could be there too.     Being no-op if regex or case 
sensitive is also checked.

Have a nice weekend,

Harri



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