Hi Kovid
A suggestion to consider, even if only for a second.
before you say "patches welcome"
As I said in my previous post
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I have been using Search and Replace and the Saved Searches and switching between them in the Calibre Editor a lot recently.
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and I noticed something .
Essentially
Search and Replace and
Edit Search page of
Saved Searches are duplicates.
The only differences I can see is that you can populate
Search and Replace by clicking on the Magnifying Glass button and it does not have a
Count Button.
My suggestion is to consider
1.removing the current
Search and Replace screen and replace it with the B]Edit Search[/B] page of
Saved Searches
2.When the current
Search and Replace function is requested use the B]Edit Search[/B] page of
Saved Searches .
3 This could perhaps be prepopulated if the Magnifying Glass button had been pressed.
This would free up some screenspace.
It eliminates possible mismatches in counts between
Search and Replace and
Saved Searches.
The
Saved Searches Edit screen has much bigger boxes to put the regex in. This would mean most regexes would be displayed in full rather than disappearing out of the box.
I do have a workaround which helps but is not ideal. Instead of using
Search and Replace I have set up a
Dummy saved search which I have put at the top of the list. I then open and use this rather than
Search and Replace unless it is a small very minor
Search and Replace.
Hope what I have put is clear.