#softwaregripe — Public Fediverse posts

New wishlist-item for #KateEditor :

• a command to "check all open files to see if they exist; close any that do not, and never mention them again ever"

(Do you think your associates can arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?)

#softwareGripe

(UPDATE: I found a way to make the search work; see end.)

Someone made a bad UI design choice...

Just now I do a search/replace in kate (across multiple files) where the replacement string happens to include \t (it's part of a PHP namespace).

Kate replaces those two characters with a TAB, in all the matching files.

Searching for \t does not find the affected text.

Copying the tab from the document and searching for that does not find it either.

I can't even search for [space]t because it used a TAB character, not spaces, in the output -- even though I have editing configured to always use spaces.

ARRGGGH. There are probably about a HUNDRED FILES affected. Maybe more.

#softwareGripe #kateEditor

Update: apparently I needed to paste the tab into a longer string or something, and then it will find matches.

This is still bad UX, though: the "search" text and the "replace" text shouldn't follow different rules.

#softwareGripe

When drag-dropping anything. a file manager should do one or both of the following:

• always ask to confirm the action
• provide a "what did I just do??" feature, with the option to undo whatever it was

I'm getting seriously tired of accidentally moving stuff and either not knowing what I moved and where it ended up or else not even realizing I did anything except things suddenly break and I don't know why.

Lookin' at you (yet again), #Caja.

(Also, WTF is it with the mode you get into where all the cut/copy options on the right-click menu are greyed out?? If that's a legit thing, I have no idea how to get out of it except to close that Caja window, and sometimes all of them.)

#softwareGripe
file-scanning software which somehow find a file which it then decides doesn't exist, causing the scan to fail on that file, at which point it quits scanning. No way to resume. #WTF

(How about, you know, just skipping that one??)

Lookinatchu, #FileLight :kestraglow:​

#softwareGripe disk-space-usage analyzers that can't tell the difference between local folders and folders that are actually links to folders on another disk

#FileLight, I'm lookin' at you :kestraglow:​

Yes, you can list folders to exclude -- but that's imprecise and also I shouldn't have to.

(mumble mumble reliably work over sftp, too, dang kids get off my lawn)