(Search and) Replace has no effect
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Kurt · 2016-11-25 00:03

Using Replace seems to have no effect in Lazarus 1.6.2.  I've tried it
using global, using selected, using from cursor, using from top. 
Whole words and just one letter.  I've tried selecting confirm on
replace and not.  I've tried hitting Replace and Replace All.  As soon
as I click on one of them the dialog just silently disappears like I
clicked cancel.

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Eugene Loza · 2016-11-25 07:17

I'm having a similar issue when I try to search and replace something
above the cursor. Try to put your cursor to the beginning of the file
and search/search&replace from there.

E.g. I want to replace something in 10 units, I search-and-replace
everything and eventually I find out something was not changed.
Finally I understand that I've just had cursor position different in
those units and in some of them the text to replace was above the
current cursor location in those files.

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Martin_fr · 2016-11-25 09:02

OS ? 32/64Bit ?

try to see if anything is in the log (start lazarus with --debug-
log=c:\log.txt

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BeniBela · 2016-11-25 11:20

I have/had an issue where I have to do everything twice.

Let's say I have searched for something, If I then click replace, it
is still searching and not replacing, so I have to start the replace
again. Then this works, but when I search something later, it starts
replacing it again.