Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Bodvar:

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Consider entering a feature request here
wish<https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform> for
a preference or option to set the Find/Replace default to what you think is
needed.


> Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
>

Regards,


Peter

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