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1) Many users find the CTRL+F feature useful, because it saves time. 2) You can only use mass replace after doing a search first, so you can see what is going
by yAnonymous 11y ago
1) Many users find the CTRL+F feature useful, because it saves time.
2) You can only use mass replace after doing a search first, so you can see what is going to be replaced.
3) You should look at the input before doing a find/replace.
4) Better use of version control would have made your problem a non-issue, even after 3).
Both of these features enable you to get stuff done faster. It's only different, yet you're acting as if it's wrong. If you like the Sublime Text way more, keep using it. But please, don't act all entitled and try to make Atom exactly like Sublime Text in every way.
- stinos 11y agoyour points sure are valid, but they all miss the key point (at least for me and probably for the OP): they cost time.. People do not always want to bother going through all matches to see if they really want to replace them (for instance because the changes can be validated by the compiler/tests suite), let alone they want to first commit all current changes to their repo before doing a find/replace (if there even is a repo to begin with)
- yAnonymous 11y ago>People do not always want to bother going through all matches That's funny, because Sublime Text opens all currently not opened files with matches for you to review before saving them individually. Having all that in a single search window is definitely faster. Again, you cling to a single use case (having all files with matches already open) and demand changes, because you think your way of doing it is "right" when in fact there are many use cases that benefit from the way Atom currently handles find/replace.
- stinos 11y agoI don't think my way is the right one (for starters because I do not have just one way of doing things), I'm merely explaining why in some cases doing as you suggest is not wanted (ok, could have called it a keypoint instead of the keypoint to make this clear I guess). Also I'm not even mentioning Sublime/Atom here, just editors and find/replace in general.
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