Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Can you elaborate on how/why they get in your way. As far as I know, if you dont press the up or down arrot keys, they are never used and you can just pretend they dont exist.
|
The moment I type anything, the list drops down (using Win7), and I have to hit Escape just to get past it to the Find button or the Replace box. Ignoring the list is difficult when I always have to hit Escape. Hitting Tab (out of longstanding habit from database usage) selects the first item on the list, requiring that I then stop and fix the entry before tabbing on to the next field. I do many of these search-and-replace operations over the course of editing a book, so I bump into this many times over.
My searches are for just normal text and/or scanning errors -- and I too often use surrounding spaces to quickly isolate specific instances -- something that serves perfectly in text searches. I don't use regex; I realize it is second-nature for many, but for me it has been too much of a struggle, and simple text searches serve very well for what I do.