Hey guys, apologies, specially to Kovid, if my previous posts have seemed harsh or something like that. I just don't like the way spaces and history work and I'm not going to like it in any way. I perfectly understand what Kovid says but, for me, it's much more dangerous "forgetting" about fixing
both Find and Replace text boxes than just knowing that the saved searches are the TRUE original used strings (with or without spaces, nbsps, shys or whatever in them).
But as I said:
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Originally Posted by arspr
Nevertheless I am more or less used to it and, even being an automated and quick fix, I've never made a mistake until now.
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And as Kovid has implied, I agree that trailing spaces can be "dangerous" as you don't see easily see them but, initial ones?
Nevertheless, this is a great software, and Kovid designs and codes it the best way he thinks. Period. I fully agree with that even if I don't agree with some of his decisions. Source code is also provided so I'm free, (if capable, what I'm not), to change whatever I want.
I'm just saying that if I were the designer/coder I would have done that space management in a different way (
or I would have added an option about switching on/off the auto-deletion of those initial/trailing spaces). But I'm not, so I just use the software he has FREELY given us, and I'm truly grateful about that.
(Kovid knows about a variant I have in my running Calibre which he doesn't support either... On a general rule, I don't like software making automatic amends to my decisions even if designed to "help" me. Being exact: I don't like being forced to use those automatic amends specially when I want to take the risk of doing exactly the opposite thing.)