find/replace in code editor

[jimy-byerley]

This feature is missing since the first day, it must be implemented on the model of kate's find/replace

[Senume]

Hi,
I wish to solve the issue. Can you elaborate on feature you wanted to add ?

[jimy-byerley]

Hello and welcome here !
You have been fast, I almost posted this issue that you already answered ^^

What I had in mind was a tool to find and replace strings in the edited file, just like in most code editors. I think we could mimic the kate editor for this, which is quite ergonomic

• Ctrl+F opens the find panel if not already opened. It shows at the bottom of the text view:
  
  you can notice

  • the string text entry
  • previous finding / next findings buttons
  • case-sensitiveness button
  • when clicking the settings, it is openning the find/replace panel and closing the find panel

• Ctrl+R opens the find/replace panel if not already opened
  
  This panel can find or find&replace depending on the button that is clicked, and it has more options than the previous one

All this is mostly Qt panelling stuff. The only tricky stuff is modifying the code without messing with the dynamic interpreter uimadcad hold in order to reexecute only modified portions of code.

I think interacting with the QTextDocument and leaving its callbacks update the dynamic interpreter handle the events should be good at the moment we disable on-line-change execution trigger during the find/replace operations.

What do you think ot this ?