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Old 12-13-2011, 10:54 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by user_none View Post
In this case status bar was requested by some people because they didn't like modal dialogs. Some people won't like the status bar... I'm open to mockups for improvements.

The 'Replace' and 'Look' labels could do with some left padding.
Not too sure that 'Look' is the best term.

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Originally Posted by user_none View Post
There were options for things like this previously. I don't see a reason to have multiple ways to define case sensitive/insensitive operations.
There are two issues with this, mostly that the user is unaware of the preset, and that for most cases they will want case insensitivity, making it a potentially bad default.
The second is that while it's understandable that minimal matching is fairly regex specific, a lot of the time someone will want to just do a quick search - does the user understand what meta-characters are? how about control statements? (?i)oh\.\.\. noes
Basic hidden functionality is bad enough; but dramatically increasing its :effort: to use is worse.

Re: the dict path, I think he was referring to :
C:\Users\Derp\AppData\Local\Strahinja Markovic\Sigil\dictionaries

Last edited by Serpentine; 12-13-2011 at 10:58 PM. Reason: oops
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