Re: [StrongED] Search with pre-filled field

[Terje Slettebø <tslettebo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot for your replies, Fred, Evan and Richard.

I see there's an abundance of ways of doing this, and it works. :)

I've been a fan of Acorn computers all the way back to the BBC Micro in the 
early 80's, but I've been away from the Acorn world the last decade or so, 
after I sold my RiscPC. However, due to the renewed activity, first with the 
Iyonix computer, and more recently the BeagleBoard port, I've got a renewed 
interest in ARM/RISC OS, and have also recently updated the extASM assembler 
for the latest ARM versions, ARMv7 (as used by the ARM Cortex A8 and A9): 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.acorn.announce/browse_frm/thread/c6d1969eea3618da

I did that recent updating mostly using Textpad on Windows and VirtualAcorn. 
However, with my BeagleBoard now up and running, in a pure RISC OS 
environment, there's no Textpad, :) but StrongED - configured the right 
way - works more or less as I'm used to with Textpad, and StrongED has 
always been a favourite RISC OS editor for me... I guess I've never given 
Zap a chance, because I was already so pleased with StrongED at the time, 
that I had no interest in investing a significant amount of time learning 
and setting up another editor, and most likely, there would be some features 
that I would miss.

I'm glad there are still people maintaining StrongED, and it seems to have 
got quite a bit of development since the last time I used it actively, all 
those years ago...

Thanks a lot for all the work you guys have put into StrongED! :)

It works, with just a minor hitch, on the BeagleBoard: When you select to 
have no toolbar, the toolbar disappears, alright, but the space it used to 
occupy is still occupied, but not updated, anymore. However, I can live with 
that.

Regards,

Terje

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Graute" <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <StrongED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [StrongED] Search with pre-filled field


> In message <12784FC803A341FBB895E24129DB65EF@Dell>
>          Terje Slettebø <tslettebo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm new at this list (but an old StrongED fan), and I'm wondering about
> > something I haven't found in the documentation:
> >
> > Several editors on Windows have a very useful feature where you can mark 
> > a
> > word in a document, open a search dialogue box, and the marked text is
> > automatically entered in the search field (alternatively, that it enters 
> > the
> > word the cursor is on, even without it having been marked). Is there a
> > similar feature in StrongED?
>
> You can transfer text to the search dialogue box in three ways:
>
> - F7, transfers the current selection.
>
> - F8, transfers the content of the clipboard.
>
> - c-W, transfers the word the caret is in. Subsequent presses will
>   transfer the following words.
>
> If you want to have this automatically you'll need to change the action
> tied to F2, or create a new keybinding for it.
>
> For example you could modify the F2 keybinding (in BaseMode) from
>
>  F2   dbox_ListOfFound
>
> to
>
>  F2   dbox_ListOfFound Complete
>
> The word the caret is in will then be entered automatically. Please note
> that the option "Show 'previous' text in Search/Replace and LoF dbox"
> in Global choices -> Edit must be off for this to work correctly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred.
>
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