What? No find and replace feature, STILL?
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Xanadu Quail
How is it that a writing app does not include a search and replace feature? it seems like such an obvious and basic feature of any writing program. I see this has been request for three years running. This does not speak well of this platform's level of innovation and support. I am considering leaving the platform for this reason.
spaceemotion
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We are still hard at work at making this possible and are (right this moment!) very heavily working towards being able to find + replace. But as we said before: adding this feature requires us to do a rewrite of everything first (which we are still working on). A "find and replace" on a single document may be easy, but that's not what we want, nor what people need. A proper find and replace has to be able to cover multiple scenes at once, as well as being able to undo it if it goes badly (even scrivener can't do this, btw!) - and for that we need to prepare lots of things. We're reworking the whole software internals, as well as how we store data to make this all possible. It will come, but it still takes quite some time.