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[IMPROVEMENT] Find and Replace Dialog #6010

@wonkawilly

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@wonkawilly

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What about to add a new button in Find and Replace dialog and in Find and Replace in Files dialog to switch the text content of the Find what text field with the Replace with text field?

The aim is to facilitate the user which needs to invert the text content of those fields. In fact at this moment in case you need to do the operation you have to do a lot of steps that make the operation really tedious, especially if you need to do it a lot of times for particular editing of the text file(s) you are modifying:

  1. select the text of the Find field
  2. copy/cut the text of that field
  3. paste it elsewhere
  4. select the text of the Replace field
  5. copy/cut the text of that field
  6. paste it into the Find field
  7. select the text of the Find field previously pasted elsewhere
  8. copy/cut that text
  9. paste it into the Replace field

There are nine passages!!! IMHO it's way too much for a so simple operation that can be done automatically with a click on a button. Unfortunately I'm one that needs to do those operations really a lot of times per day so a button placed right there could facilitate a lot my complex editing and find and replace operations.

Look at the attached image file to see the aspect of the button I propose to implement: as simple as that:

Notepad++ Find Replace Form New Button
Notepad++ Find Replace in Files Form New Button

Thanks for comprehension.

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