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Separate find/replace find-fields, no unselecting

#1

I’m using version 2.0.2 (in Ubuntu) and did some task that was like find,replace,find,replace etc.

1a) Is there an option to have a separate find text buffer for the replace function? (So that the find function and the replace function won’t share it.)
1b) And if F3 could then go on searching after I have replaced something, would be nice too.

  1. It would be nice if there was an option so that text won’t be unselected when:
    2a) opening the find/replace pane **
    2b) selecting something in the find/replace fields

** I have no idea why sometimes the text gets unselected, sometimes not.

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#2

Don’t know about Sublime 3 (it’s beta, so I didn’t try), but 2.0.2 in Ubuntu does unselect

  • on CTRL+H when there was text in the find field (the find text gets selected and it seems therefore the main text gets unselected)
  • when you do a backspace on the last remaining character in the text field

Don’t know about Windows or other text editors, but shouldn’t the “Find what:” field have a second selection that is just independend of the selections in the main text? I have no Idea how to do replacements inside a selection without getting nervous. Would this get improved in 2.0.2 or should I switch to 3 Beta anyway? Beta sounds so … unstable.

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