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I would like to cast my vote for the ability to search in only one direction -- just down and just up. Of course, if this would present undue technical difficulties or entail too much time to implement, I could understand why the developers would not do it.
I could think of a few instances where I might use this. For example, say all the headlines in a book had the same style -- ie, the "Introduction" ... "Table of Contents" ... the "Foreword" .... plus all the "Chapters XX." But say you want to change just the chapter heads to a different style. Well then you'd only want to do a search-and-replace from the first chapter down and skip all the material preceding Chapter 1. I understand that this probably can be done with some form of regex using the word "Chapter" but regex is hard for a lot of people (including me!) and harder to get right.
I think I would use the options fairly often, if they were there. But, again, if it was technically difficult to implement I can understand leaving it out.
--Pat
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