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KevinH · 07-11-2022, 02:58 PM

Yes, this was documented in earlier changes for Sigil 1.9.2 There is now a manual restart search button.

Use that to repeat an exact search treating where you are now (the cursor) as the new starting point.

The Wrap flag only works when the search mode is Current File.

When searching sets of files (All HTML, etc), the Wrap flag is no longer used. Instead all matches are visited once and only once by repeated use of Find.

These changes were made to prevent common match misses, and to enable Saved Searches search groups to be run while allowing manual skipping over matches without having to do that repeatedly.

This was a requested feature by users so that Saved Search Groups can more easily be run to fix up sets of common mistakes (normally multiple ocr scan errors) in a much much faster manner.

So learn to trust the new Find that for any new search over a set of files, repeated use of Find will visit each match just once, missing none, looking in the search direction. When complete the No Matches Found status message will appear. If you hit the Restart search button, it will repeat that process from the current cursor position.

The Sigil Users Guide documents all of these changes.

If a heavy user of Find Replace, you may also want to explore the new Dry Run Replace all tool and the new Replacement Chooser tool and this can greatly speed up Find / Replace when some matches must be skipped based on context.

Check out this thread for more information about these new tools:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=346639

07-11-2022, 02:58 PM	#88
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,893 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Yes, this was documented in earlier changes for Sigil 1.9.2 There is now a manual restart search button. Use that to repeat an exact search treating where you are now (the cursor) as the new starting point. The Wrap flag only works when the search mode is Current File. When searching sets of files (All HTML, etc), the Wrap flag is no longer used. Instead all matches are visited once and only once by repeated use of Find. These changes were made to prevent common match misses, and to enable Saved Searches search groups to be run while allowing manual skipping over matches without having to do that repeatedly. This was a requested feature by users so that Saved Search Groups can more easily be run to fix up sets of common mistakes (normally multiple ocr scan errors) in a much much faster manner. So learn to trust the new Find that for any new search over a set of files, repeated use of Find will visit each match just once, missing none, looking in the search direction. When complete the No Matches Found status message will appear. If you hit the Restart search button, it will repeat that process from the current cursor position. The Sigil Users Guide documents all of these changes. If a heavy user of Find Replace, you may also want to explore the new Dry Run Replace all tool and the new Replacement Chooser tool and this can greatly speed up Find / Replace when some matches must be skipped based on context. Check out this thread for more information about these new tools: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=346639 Last edited by KevinH; 07-11-2022 at 04:21 PM.