Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

[David Dorbin]

Yeah, someone on the TCS Users list (where I cross-posted this) also
reported having replace all with a space. I don't know what I would have
done!

I love Frame, always have, but as with all previous versions I've used,
there are some "what were they thinking" moments.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Callie Bertsche <c.bertsche at tecplot.com>wrote:

>  I just had to reply that it's nice to hear from another framer out there
> who has had the same trouble with Ctrl-f and typing being misinterpreted by
> FM 9! I used to do this habitually in FM 7 to navigate quickly in my huge
> books. Now with FM 9, as you said, the focus is unpredictable and it has
> also bitten me a couple times!! Most recently I accidentally did a book
> global "find all note text and replace with space" with 57 instances
> accidentally when I only meant to type a word into the Find text field!!
> Unfortunately I hadn't checked my files into source control in a couple days
> so I had to painstakingly go through and re-add all of my note
> text...fortunately I had a built PDF to copy from, but still took me quite a
> while and was infuriating. Quite an unfortunate change of behavior from FM
> 7!
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> It's nice to know that someone else out there has shared my frustration. :)
>
> Cheers, Callie
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> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:02:52 -0400
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> From: David Dorbin <ddorbin at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace
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> Argh.
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> Before I had Frame 9, I had Frame 7, and I used to would Find things
> thusly:
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> 1. Press Ctrl-f
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> 2. Start typing the text to find.
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> 3. Press Enter.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Anyone else experienced this? Any advice, other than to slow down and to
> rely less on keyboard shortcuts?
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> Dave D.
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