I have a bad day with the global find and replace feature

[Curculigo]

It's the Search tab at the bottom. The problem is it's optimized for search more than replace. I don't know that I have to press Search first to have it update the occurrences list before I can replace it. I think it's like other text editors. I simply type the new search string and the new replace string (the previous time I didn't do the replacement). It used the previous search string and replaced using my newly entered replace string. And it seems it commits directly to the disk, so there is no way to undo the damage. Luckily, I have git, otherwise I have corrupted the whole code base I'm working on.

[SpartanJ]

What's your request?

[Curculigo]

What about you re-reading my thread? I have fed it into grammar check, so I think there shouldn't be many writing issues left. Is it hard to understand? Please tell me I will rewrite it. Sorry for my English.

I have switched from Quillbot to Grammar Check. Both as free user. My writing quality seems to be degraded a lot.

[Curculigo]

I can write in my native language and have Google Translate to do the rest. The quality is much better than when I'm writing my own. But it's no longer fun.

[Curculigo]

What's your request?

The request is can you redesign it to make it easier to do global find and replace. The current is more optimized for find only.

[SpartanJ]

Sorry but I don't want to change anything about the search and replace, it's designed exactly how I wanted it to be. Maybe I can tell you how I use it:

I search for something (Ctrl + F + Type string + Enter)... I find that I want to replace this? I press Ctrl + R pick the replacements + enter and done.

Regarding the "writes directly to disk": the way it works is... if the document is open it will replace it in the current buffer (not save) and if it's not open it will save to disk. This is pretty common in editors. But I think a checkbox can be added to enable/disable writing to disk, otherwise it can load the files if not opened and replace in the buffer.