[PB IDE 4.50] Block-select find/replace selection

[USCode]

If I select a block of text in the PB IDE using Ctrl-Alt, then choose to do a Find/Replace in that block of text with the Search Inside selection only, I expected only that text inside the text block to be changed. However the PB IDE is changing all the matching characters on the entire selected lines, not limiting itself to within the selected text block only.

[STARGÅTE]

Window - Find/Replace

[x] Search inside Selection only

[USCode]

Window - Find/Replace

[x] Search inside Selection only

I don't follow what you're saying?

[Vera]

Hi USCode,

STARGÅTE only kind of asked you, if you might have missed to check the checkbox

inside selection only

on the search/replace GUI.

greetings ~ Vera

[USCode]

Hi USCode,

STARGÅTE only kind of asked you, if you might have missed to check the checkbox

inside selection only

on the search/replace GUI.

greetings ~ Vera

I mentioned it in my original post but I guess not very clearly. Yep, I have "Search inside selection only" checked.
Otherwise it would perform the search/replace throughout the entire file.
The problem here is it is doing the search/replace on the entire lines I have selected but it should only be doing it in the actual (ctrl-alt) text block I have selected.

[PB]

@USCode: You should provide reproducible steps to show it,
as I have been unable to see the problem when replacing the
text "th" in the below code. Works fine for me.

Code: Select all

path="C:\" ; Unselected.
a$="this is a test"
thick=1
i=CreateImage(thick,640,480)
th=999 ; Also unselected.

In my testing of the above, both commented lines do NOT have
"th" replaced at all. Only the selected lines in the middle (lines
2, 3 and 4) have "th" replaced. I even tried a vertical block
selection (holding down Alt while selecting with the mouse)
and it still worked as expected.

[USCode]

@USCode: You should provide reproducible steps to show it ...

PB you're right, I need to provide a clear example as this is rather rare corner case but sometimes it can be useful when using block-select.

For example, here's a screenshot of a section of spaces block-selected:


In the example above after hitting "Replace All" you would expect all the blanks selected in the code block to be changed to *, but this is what happens:


Not really a good real-world example but it gets the idea across. In the past with other editors I've normally used this block-text find/replace feature to generate sample text data by using the editor. Bottom-line, the editor should only be performing the find/replace inside the selected area.
HTH in understanding the issue.

[Vera]

Hello USCode,

now with the closer infos I could check what you meant far better and found out it's the same on Win as on Linux, and it also occurs in former versions.

After testing a lot of possibilities I found out in the end it is due to the cursor's start and endposition and not to the 'selected' (highlighted) text.

The first image shows the selected text for all 4 possible ways of marking a block and below the two corresponding results:
1 - downwards to left (behind)
1 - upwards to right (ahead)
2 - upwards to left (behind)
2 - downwards to right (ahead)



The second image shows that a block-selection beyond text of the same length can only be done by one way (backwards) and here the result is even more obvious.



It's kind of true that only the selected text is taken for search and replace - but the marking points are obtained by the cursors positions.

Still this is very missleading compared to e.g. copy / paste actions with selected blocks and may lead to corrupting the code if you're not aware of it.

So it should at least be mentioned in the IDE handling description unless it cannot be changed to an expected behaviour.

greetings ~ Vera