GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 515095
Merge "Replace" into Search dialog and entend it
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:25:16 UTC
In the Search Center, under the "Matches" tab, a list of all cells containing the search string comes up. I sometimes find myself using this as a handy way of iterating through a repetitive task. Being able to remove and reorder search results would be useful. It would also be nice to be able to highlight several of them, and alter them as a chunk. For instance, suppose I have a large data table, with null values represented as 'NULL'. I could search 'NULL', and highlight all the null values, say by changing the background colour or font. This might cause problems with multiple ranges; I'm not sure how feasible it is, and there comes a stage when a script approach might be better. The Search Center is already very useful, much better than the standard Find/Replace.
Sounds generally reasonable. In fact, there probably is not need for Replace to be a separate dialog.
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