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by tasty_freeze
599 days ago
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I'm not dumb and I'm sure you aren't either, so I think we are failing to imagine the same scenario the other is. >> I can select the body of a function
> and as I've pointed out, that's a different workflow. You've added a "in this > semantic block" requirement and mistakenly compare it to the original > incremental one Yes, I picked that scenario because doing search & replace on all vars of a given name across the whole file doesn't require selection. Yes, I would normally want to replace that var name when it appears in comments too. Yes, I typically have a very good if not perfect knowledge of whether foobar is a variable name only or might appear as a substring of something else. If my variable name was "n" then I'd have to take more care. |
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The original scenario explicitly states "not every instance in the open file ", so not sure why you bring that up
> in comments
same, where is this coming from? That adds no difference to these 2 workflows
> very good ... knowledge
This is just self-deception, you don't have the full text with auto-matching built into your brain, and since 'n' is an rethorical alternative, in reality you wouldn't even have a great way of knowing when to take more care