Find-and-Replace: Stop it marking a point in Project History if no changes are made

Question

Continuing the discussion from PT regex flavour and scope:

PT regex flavour and scope

… I wish that PT’s … Find-and-Replace would not mark a point if no replacements are made. I know that it normally marks two points, and the presence of only one marked Replace point means nothing was replaced, but it’s still a waste of space in the already-very-long Project History.

Would anyone like me to submit this as a feature request?

Answer 1

One reason for keeping this is that it gives a history of what you “tried” to change. Also, if any edits had been made to the text those will be reflected in the history point. In my example I had not made any additional changes before doing the Find/Replace so it doesn’t show any changes.

Often I’ll do a Find before doing a Find/Replace so that I can check to see if the item even exists.

Comments

anon848905:

Often I’ll do a Find before doing a Find/Replace so that I can check to see if the item even exists.

… which is what I would do.

And this is exactly my point: if users were disciplined enough to do a Find first, then there would be no “unnecessary” points marked; but since many of our users seem to just go ahead and use Replace, our History is littered with these “attempts at Replace”.

Either way, I can’t really see why you would want to know what you tried to change …

Answer 2

Yes. That looks like a good idea. Seems little to lose.

Answer 3

agreed