[softwarelist] Re: F4 type 5 error

  • From: Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:50:17 +0000 (GMT)

David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >1. Select a word in some text.
> >2. F4: Find = same word, Replace with = anything, All stories
> >3. Go
> >4. Replace: crash!

> Interesting.

> I can reproduce this on both Windows and RISC OS, it seems that 
> selecting "All stories" is the key thing.

> If some text is selected then OP only searches the selected text, so 
> this is an operation that should not be doing very much - the all 
> stories setting should be ignored.

Perhaps grey it out when there's a selection?

Chris.

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