Usabiity issues / improvement suggestions

[SmallJoker]

I ran into the same question as Alexey-T/CudaText#3798 and gave FindInFiles 4 a try. It does work, but is not very friendly to use:

1. The search window always takes focus, thus switching between the search window and editing is not possible (Linux gtk2, CudaText 1.227.0.0).
2. When opening the search window, it should automatically pick the parent directory of the currently opened file.
   • I found that Ctrl+U does this. It would be more intuitive to have it as dropdown option too (see below).
3. Currently open projects/directories should be listed as dropdown options in the "*From" input box. Initially, there are no suggestions at all, which requires to copy & paste the path from another place.
4. Codepage cp1252 is always selected, even though the files are all saved as UTF-8 (without BOM).

Thank you for the plugin. I hope this input helps to make it more popular in the future.

[Alexey-T]

FindInFiles4 plug can be changed, to make dialog non-modal, i guess, only by @kvichans author. sorry.

but I maybe want to adapte Find/replace-in-files code of SynWrite (Windows app) to add it to CudaText. not soon, but I maybe want it, in near months, wait.

it looks like this in synwrite:

[SmallJoker]

Wow, that is great news! I would love to see this functionality directly inside of CudaText. I am looking forward to seeing this in action - whenever it might be :).