Keep the history of find and replace strings

[thekalinga]

• VSCode Version:

Version 1.9.0-insider
Commit 39d761b
Date 2017-01-18T07:21:35.814Z
Shell 1.4.6
Renderer 53.0.2785.143
Node 6.5.0

• OS Version:

Ubuntu 14.04

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open any file, Enter find and replace strings
2. Close find & replace dialog & then close file
3. Open the same file. Click any word in the file & press ctrl+f. Your earlier search string is gone. You need to retype the whole search string & replace strings.

Like notepad++, you should have the ability to select previous search strings & replace strings. Otherwise, all complex regex you write for both search & replace strings are screwed as soon as you click in the wrong area and open the find dialog.

Currently up & down arrow move the cursor to the start & end of the search string, but they should be mapped to navigate search/replace string history

[thekalinga]

Also, ctrl+z does not work properly with in search string field, in the above scenario aswell.

If the editor automatically replaces the search string with the word under cursor, ctrl+z behaviour is wierd & messes up the whole search string

[roblourens]

You can use alt+up/down to navigate the search string history and get back the replaced one.

[thekalinga]

Thanks for that.

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Also, ctrl+z does not work properly with in search string field, in the above scenario aswell.

If the editor automatically replaces the search string with the word under cursor, ctrl+z behaviour is weird & messes up the whole search string

[thekalinga]

Also, alt+up, alt+down does not work for replace string input box, this works only for search input box

[smuuf]

I usually have some complex wildcards in "files to include" and/or "files to exclude" fields and it's very annoying that these fields don't have some sort of history, too. 😭

[sandy081]

@smuuf We recently implemented history navigation for files to include and files to exclude fields. Please check it out in latest stable or insiders.

Only field to be supported is replace.

[smuuf]

@sandy081 Yes, I believe that in the latest stable 1.15.1 the files to include/exclude fields do really have a history. Using alt+up/down while having focus in those fields lets the user to browse its history.

Which is really cool. :) Thank you, guys.

[sandy081]

Duplicate of #18233

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