Find and Replace does not work correctly

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Find and Replace does not work correctly

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In order to perform an efficient search for note titles, at least as EPIM works at present, I unfortunately have to modify all titles of my notes replacing the first letter by the combination "colon plus first letter". (That means: A becomes :A, B becomes :B etc.).

In order to be sure that all works o.k. I decided to select a smaller amount of notes and to control every replacement separately. Hereby I found out that there seems to be a bug in this procedure of Find and Replace:

- Let's assume I select in the tree the notes with the titles "BEFESTIGEN" until "BEFRAGEN" (= 13 notes).

- In the window "Find and Replace"
-- I determine "B" as "Text to find" and ":B" as "To replace with"
-- I check "Selected note(s)" as "Search scope" and "Titles" for "Search in".

FRE.jpg

- Then I click "Find next" and afterwards "Replace".

--> For the first of the selected notes ("BEFESTIGEN") the replacement works: The title becomes ":BEFESTIGEN" (see I. in the image below).
But at the same moment automatically pops up a window which tells me "Could not find 'B'! Do you want to continue from the beginning?" (II.).
At the same time the selection of the notes is lost, although there would remain 12 more notes for which I would have to do the replacement (III.):

FRE2.jpg

The same happens when I do not click on "Find next" but directly on "Replace". (Only "Replace all" works without problems.)
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Re: Find and Replace does not work correctly

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Confirm this, will be fixed in the next EPIM's update.
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Re: Find and Replace does not work correctly

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Just a question to be sure:

In version 9.10.6. it is still not fixed. Right?
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Re: Find and Replace does not work correctly

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Yep, this is to be fixed in 10.0 Beta 2.
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