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jackSeriously. If you accept that someone may want to search for a regex, or a whole word, or just for plain text, what is the chance that they will want to search for the same string as BOTH? Seriously, does that ever happen? If I type a regex, I almost always want to search for something it matches! I pretty much NEVER search for a plain text string and then say "I changed my mind, I also want to search for something that matches that as a regex".
So if you choose a "most recent search" from a dropdown list, the search options should be set to what they were for THAT string, not for whatever string you used most recently.
OK, this is partly my fault for using GUI find dialogues in the first place, but I don't see why, if they exist, they can't do the logical thing, rather than requiring everyone to fiddle with the search options before they work. (For that matter, could there be a button for "search for this string as a regex and as plain text, and highlight the one that works". That's also conceptually wrong, but at least it would be helpful! :))
So if you choose a "most recent search" from a dropdown list, the search options should be set to what they were for THAT string, not for whatever string you used most recently.
OK, this is partly my fault for using GUI find dialogues in the first place, but I don't see why, if they exist, they can't do the logical thing, rather than requiring everyone to fiddle with the search options before they work. (For that matter, could there be a button for "search for this string as a regex and as plain text, and highlight the one that works". That's also conceptually wrong, but at least it would be helpful! :))