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Petition to restore the Find and Replace dialog in ActiveState Komodo

Fri, 2008-03-07 10:47 — christianmlong

ActiveState, Inc. makes Komodo, a great IDE for developing software in Python, Perl, and many other languages. I've written before about some of my favorite features.

Now, the bad news. In Komodo 4.3, they introduced a new Find and Replace dialog box, which they tout as a great improvement. I think its ugly and klunky, plus it's not what I'm used to.

Netroots to the rescue! I posted a petition which asks ActiveState to restore the old dialog as an option. Please click on the link below, to visit and sign the petition.

Restore the Komodo Find & Replace dialog
http://www.gopetition.com/online/17507.html

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Fri, 2008-03-07 12:08 — trentm

any specific comments?

Hi,

I'm the guy behind most of the Find/Replace stuff in Komodo. I'd appreciate any specific comments you have about how the new find dialog makes it harder for you to use Komodo find/replace system.

Note that a lot of what we are touting as improvements in the find/replace system is with the new abilities: Find/Replace in Files, Find/Replace in Project. The "Replace in Files" backend goes to a lot of effort to guard against a lot of failures: filetype determination to ensure replacements aren't made in binary files, encoding detection to make sure that files with unicode content aren't improperly saved, not to mention the ability for full unicode find/replace. A lot of fixes were done to how regex patterns are handled so that, e.g., the "$" and "^" markers work as expected even on Windows where "\r\n" line endings can causes surprises there. Replace in Files has basic undo support.

While the new Find/Replace dialog isn't going to win any beauty contests its main goal was to support all the functionalities of Komodo's Find/Replace system in a tight and usable package. One likely change, based on feedback I've seen so far, is that the "Replace" checkbox will move to beside the replace textbox and instead of the replace textbox collapsing and expanding, it'll just be enabled/disabled.

Sincerely,
Trent