Version: 0.1 (using KDE 3.4.0, compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.4.3 OS: SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8 I have just spent quite some time trying to understand why I was locked in "Search only" mode... I was trying to remove the following string: "$CST/" from a list of files, and I thought I could leave the "replace with" field empty to do that. I finally found out that it is not possible to active the "Search/replace" mode as long as the "replace with" field is empty. Putting a space there worked (as soon as I understood I had to backslash the "$" !), but it is not exactly what I was trying to achieve. I see no good usability argument to keep the current behavior, and I believe it should be changed. There are other ways to only search for strings whithout replacing them, it that's what the user wants.
I STRONGLY agree with Nicolas !
Mee too Also I don´t think it´s hard to implement. Maybe a question boy should open to prevent this action to be made by mistake (forgot to enter the replace string)
Mee too, everytime I wanted to use kfilereplace, I wanted to replace with an empty string. It is useless for me in it's current state.
is this still not solved?
@András Manţia: are you still active in development?
Created attachment 105520 [details] Patch for bug #124626 Here's a patch for this. There's a possible problem with the patch in that there's no way to ask the app to use search-only mode, but I don't really see the point since one could just click Search Later and then click Simulate. If that's a problem, a check box could be added for it.
(Author information for the above patch: created by Elliot Chandler on 13 May 2017)
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug.