replace in book view changes view to code view

cybmole · 10-28-2012, 01:13 PM

as title says. If I am in in book view & use find then replace , the view changes to code view.
is that supposed to happen .
It was not like that in the old v4.whatever

meme · 10-28-2012, 01:18 PM

That is supposed to happen.

Replace in Book View was never reliable and in order to be certain it worked properly, replace can only be done in Code View. So if you are in Book View it will helpfully switch you to Code View.

cybmole · 10-28-2012, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by meme

That is supposed to happen.

Replace in Book View was never reliable and in order to be certain it worked properly, replace can only be done in Code View. So if you are in Book View it will helpfully switch you to Code View.

I thought that might be the case, but could it be helpful enough to actually do the replace as instructed once it has finished switching view.
it seems to switch view but then do nothing, & it has to be told twice ?

kiwidude · 10-28-2012, 01:37 PM

It doesn't "do nothing", what it does is perform the Find in code view. And there is *no* guarantee at all that the text you selected in Book View has a match in code view (since it might have spans, entities etc making it a different piece of text). So it is safest to reconfirm to the user that the occurrence it has found in Code View is the one you were expecting before it does anything undesired like replacing the wrong value (and then jumping to the next match if you had clicked Replace/Find).

If Sigil doesn't take these precautions, then you can end up replacing the wrong text, which people would complain about an awful lot more (even worse for the fact that they wouldn't know what it it had replaced).

cybmole · 10-28-2012, 02:20 PM

i get that - so you allow find to operate in book view, but not any of the replace options,

I expect I will get used to it. in this instance I was using find / replace to step through a chapter replacing some (but only some) plain hyphens with emdash , & it's easier to see the hyphen usage in context while in book view. (as in: is that a hyphenated word or a misuse of a hyphen that needs changing ...). I've become accustomed to doing that entirely in book view.

I note also that replace & find next, current file, with direction = down, now loops back to start of file & continues to search from there. in the older versions that did not happen: down meant down.

10-28-2012, 01:13 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	replace in book view changes view to code view as title says. If I am in in book view & use find then replace , the view changes to code view. is that supposed to happen . It was not like that in the old v4.whatever

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10-28-2012, 01:18 PM	#2
meme Sigil developer Posts: 1,274 Karma: 1101600 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle PW, K4 NT, K3, Kobo Touch	That is supposed to happen. Replace in Book View was never reliable and in order to be certain it worked properly, replace can only be done in Code View. So if you are in Book View it will helpfully switch you to Code View.

10-28-2012, 01:37 PM	#4
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,694 Karma: 2162246 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	It doesn't "do nothing", what it does is perform the Find in code view. And there is no guarantee at all that the text you selected in Book View has a match in code view (since it might have spans, entities etc making it a different piece of text). So it is safest to reconfirm to the user that the occurrence it has found in Code View is the one you were expecting before it does anything undesired like replacing the wrong value (and then jumping to the next match if you had clicked Replace/Find). If Sigil doesn't take these precautions, then you can end up replacing the wrong text, which people would complain about an awful lot more (even worse for the fact that they wouldn't know what it it had replaced).

10-28-2012, 02:20 PM	#5
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	i get that - so you allow find to operate in book view, but not any of the replace options, I expect I will get used to it. in this instance I was using find / replace to step through a chapter replacing some (but only some) plain hyphens with emdash , & it's easier to see the hyphen usage in context while in book view. (as in: is that a hyphenated word or a misuse of a hyphen that needs changing ...). I've become accustomed to doing that entirely in book view. I note also that replace & find next, current file, with direction = down, now loops back to start of file & continues to search from there. in the older versions that did not happen: down meant down.

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