Please don't kill the in-place find feature of the former CTRL-J

> Hi,
>
> here is a change set that should make in-place-find work:
> undo-inplace-find-fix.cs
> <http://forum.world.st/file/n4868139/undo-inplace-find-fix.cs>
>
> Please test it, then I can commit it into trunk. Here is how it works:
>
> - You just moved your cursor to some place without selecting something.
> - You type something.
> - You hit *CMD+G* to "find again"
> - The previous input will be removed and taken as search text.
> - The next match will be selected.
> - (If you err here, you can *undo* with CMD+Z and insert the input again.)
>
> If you hit CMD+J, nothing will happen because there was no replace operation
> detected. If you, however, hit CMD+G to find the next match and then
> continue wit a CMD+J, it will find/replace the next match (with nothing)
> because your insertion was removed automatically.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
>
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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Masato Sumi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I'm very worry about that the new CTRL-J (aka "again") of tunk seems
> lacking very old but elegant feature of the former CTRL-J, "in-place
> find" function.
>
> When you just inserted text at a caret, the former version of CTRL-J
> (or select "again" from yellow-button menu) sets the text as a search
> key then delete it and then select next found text.
>
> I prefer and everyday use this feature because it make me find the
> text very seamlessly.
>
> I know my English is too bad to explain about this feature, so I made
> a screen-recording below. (Although it is very old Apple Smalltalk,
> you can do the same thing in current Squeak but not trunk)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jKdn_9dKeQ
>
> If it was my misunderstanding and the new CTRL-J still keeps this
> feature, please let me how to use it.
>
> Thanks
> --
> sumim
>

>
>
> On 12/21/2015 01:32 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21-12-2015, at 8:54 AM, Jerry Bell <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't recall seeing that Apple Smalltalk before.   Is it available
>>> somewhere?   Does it run on a Squeak VM?
>>
>> That’s an ancient Apple vm running a slightly modified Smalltalk -80
>> direct from SCG PARC; Apple took part in the early experiments detailed in
>> the Green Book[1]. This was actually available from Apple for a while when
>> the Mac was young, I think via one or other of the developer programs. It
>> also ‘grew up’ to become the first Squeak image as released in ’96 and of
>> course that has grown up to become the current Squeak and Pharo images. So
>> in a sense, yes it actually does run on a Squeak VM.
>>
>> As for actually running the old Apple image as shown in that video… I
>> doubt anyone has built a vm for that in a while. It’s just faintly possible
>> that a really old vm from http://ftp.squeak.org/1.1/ might run it, if you
>> could get hold of it. And a Mac that such an old VM can run on.
>>
>> Take a look at  http://squeak.org/downloads/ and try a few older downloads
>> out to see which is the oldest you can find a way to run.
>
>
> Oh jeez, this is like Ready Player one all over again! :_)
>
>
> awesome,
> robert
>
>
>>
>> tim
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> . ..  ...   ^,^    robert
> Go Panthers!
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