During long find-and-replace operations, the dialog is stuck on top of other programs

[Claus Pedersen]

I am performing a long-running find-and-replace operation in a file.
I shift to another program, but the find-and-replace is stuck, it stays on top of other programs and can not be minimised. Only when PLD has finished the operation, the dialog is hidden together with the PLD main window (as normal).

There a three ways to improve this:

The good: make major improvements to the PLD find-and-replace engine. Several minutes to perform a couple of thousand find-and-replace operations in a file with e.g. 10,000 lines is not good enough for a simple text editor.

The bad: make a busy find-and-replace dialog hide together with the rest of the main IDE window when using other programs.

And the ugly: kill PLD using the task manager.



I am using version 11.0.5.1790, 64 bit

 

[Marco Kalter]

We'll try to improve this.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

OK, please improve both the find-and-replace speed and the persistent dialog.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

When will this be fixed?

I also miss a kind of progress text when the search all or replace all buttons are pressed. The progress bar could show something like "searching line 123 of 1000" or "replacing line 1154 of 4500"

 

[Martins]

Also wanted to complain about the performance of find/replace.

Had "some" UPDATE statements in my SQL Window and wanted to replace 4000 occurrences of a simple string '12345' with another '67890'.

It took PLSQLdev (v.13.0.5.1908 64bit) about 2 minutes (of course becoming not responding).

Notepad++ does that in less than 1 second.

Just sayin'...