Selection dropped when doing a search

[jmangasarian2]

I am using Zeus 3.96o on WindowsXP. I am using the Brief keyboard.
I select some text using the ALT-M, arrow over to select some text, then do an Alt-S and seach from some char before the end of the line.

What happens is my original selection is thrown away and the char I am searching for is selected.

What I had expected and what has worked for me with other brief editiors is that my original selection up to and including the char I searched for would be selected.

[jussij]

What happens is my original selection is thrown away and the char I am searching for is selected.

Unfortunately I am not really sure what you mean by original selection being thrown away

It's has been a very long time since I used the original Brief so I might more than likely forgotten how it actually worked ;?

This is what I did:

1. Set Brief as active
2. Opened a document
3. In the middle of the first page and in the middle of that line start marking with Alt+M
4. Use the keyboard right arrow to selected a few characters[/B]
5. Alt+S to bring up the search dialog.

What I had expected and what has worked for me with other brief editors is that my original selection up to and including the char I searched for would be selected.

For me the marked area is retained and the search dialog is displayed with the highlighted text displayed in the find text entry field.

If I had selected more than one line then the search text would still have been retained but the Market text only option of the search dialog would have been selected.

Cheers Jussi

[jmangasarian2]

<this is the original line>

select the "<this" with the ALT-M and then arrow over
then ALT-S and seach for ">"
Now the whole line should be selected.


You might ask why would I want to do this? The answer is that when you are creating a macro you often need to search for a delmiter and keeping the selection of text, so that one can copy or delete is important.

[jussij]

Now the whole line should be selected.

Ok, I now understand what you mean. I must admit I don't remembered using this Brief feature, but it is definitely a nice feature to have

Unfortunately the current searching does not support this feature

But I think it should be easy enough to add a Maintain seletion check box to the find and replace dialogs to allow for this behaviour

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

But I think it should be easy enough to add a Maintain seletion check box

This feature has been added to the latest Zeus release found here: http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2118

Cheers Jussi