Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Yes, with FM 7 / 7.2, but luckily without any disaster that I know of,
thank God. I ususally start with Find, and as FM defaults to book, if
the book is open, I sometimes get stuck for a while while FM opens and
closes maybe hundreds of files before I am allowed to do anything.

I would call this a bug, not a feature, because if the default was the
open file, it would oftentimes only take a fraction of the time it
> takes for Find or Replace to browse through the whole book. :-( Something lacking in structuring of the layout of the feature. IMHO, the programmers seem not to have taken human behaviour sufficiently into consideration.

A very dangerous feature, indeed.

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

>
> 2009/10/14 David Dorbin <ddorbin at gmail.com>:
>> Argh.
>>
>> Before I had Frame 9, I had Frame 7, and I used to would Find things thusly:
>>
>> 1. Press Ctrl-f
>> 2. Start typing the text to find.
>> 3. Press Enter.
>>
>> Now in Frame 9, when I press ctrl-f, the Find/Change pod displays, but the
>> cursor is rarely waiting there in the text box. In fact, the "focus" seems
>> to be unpredictable.
>>
>> This has bitten me a few times already. I hit ctrl-f and start typing, and
>> Frame decides that I meant to do a global search and replace. It might be
>> that I'm typing "c" and that activates the Change button. Lucky for me, I've
>> usually got the Document rather than the Book radio button selected, so it
>> only makes the change in the current chapter. And I can do a quick Undo
>> Replace.
>>
>> Lucky until today, that is. This time the Book radio button was lit up, and
>> Frame replaced x with y 27 times across all chapter files. And it opens each
>> one, makes the changes, and closes it, so there is no Undo. I had to open up
>> each of 18 chapter files, search for the replace text, evaluate each
>> occurrence with my actual mind to see if was one of the inadvertent
>> replacements, and fix it back.
>>
>> Anyone else experienced this? Any advice, other than to slow down and to
>> rely less on keyboard shortcuts?
>>
>> Dave D.
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