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When we navigate using Next/Previous Difference (<F7>/<Shift><F7>), we can see the found difference in the middle of the screen, and this is good. But if we navigate using Next/Previous Bookmark (<F2><Shift><F2>), we get them at unpredictable place: sometimes at the bottom, and sometimes at the top - depends on what we have pressed (<F2> or <Shift><F2>), and on the fact that we just have passed through file overwrapping or have not.

1) I suggest to position the current point at the middle of the screen during navigation using bookmarks - as it is done with navigation using differences. Maybe even give the similar option as it is given for differences ("Scroll current diff to center").

2) I did not find a way to always control the behavior of the overwrapping:
- In Find Text dialog we can control it.
- In Find Next Difference it is always off.
- In Find Next Bookmark it is always on.
I feel some inconsistency with this approach.

Thank you.

1) I suggest to position the current point at the middle of the screen during navigation using bookmarks - as it is done with navigation using differences. Maybe even give the similar option as it is given for differences ("Scroll current diff to center").

I checked both Textpad and Visual C++ 6.0, and I have to agree with you that when a bookmark is not visible in a current page, it should be scrolled to be in the middle. This is exactly how the search works in EDP. I don't think adding another option is necessary (going thorough differences is somewhat different in my mind). Please let me know your opinion on the proposed fix.

2) I did not find a way to always control the behavior of the overwrapping:
- In Find Text dialog we can control it.
- In Find Next Difference it is always off.
- In Find Next Bookmark it is always on.
I feel some inconsistency with this approach.

Perhaps. But if you look at Textpad, they also always wrap over when dealing with bookmarks, and control the wrapping for searches. I think one of the reasons is that going through bookmarks does not require a dialog where such option could set, and adding yet another setting to the massive list of EDP (or Textpad for that matter) options is not desirable.

psguru wrote:

1) I suggest to position the current point at the middle of the screen during navigation using bookmarks - as it is done with navigation using differences. Maybe even give the similar option as it is given for differences ("Scroll current diff to center").

I checked both Textpad and Visual C++ 6.0, and I have to agree with you that when a bookmark is not visible in a current page, it should be scrolled to be in the middle. This is exactly how the search works in EDP. I don't think adding another option is necessary (going thorough differences is somewhat different in my mind). Please let me know your opinion on the proposed fix.

2) I did not find a way to always control the behavior of the overwrapping:
- In Find Text dialog we can control it.
- In Find Next Difference it is always off.
- In Find Next Bookmark it is always on.
I feel some inconsistency with this approach.

Perhaps. But if you look at Textpad, they also always wrap over when dealing with bookmarks, and control the wrapping for searches. I think one of the reasons is that going through bookmarks does not require a dialog where such option could set, and adding yet another setting to the massive list of EDP (or Textpad for that matter) options is not desirable.

- As for opinion - I'll be glad for any improvement. This is because any improvement will improve (hopefuly).
- As for bookmarks in general - the interesting thing is that before posting the original post I searched this sub-forum for bookmarks and did not find anything. I wonder if anybody uses them at all... (Or my search was wrong.)

Thank you.

- As for opinion - I'll be glad for any improvement. This is because any improvement will improve (hopefuly).

The fix will be coming in the next build of 3.4.

- As for bookmarks in general - the interesting thing is that before posting the original post I searched this sub-forum for bookmarks and did not find anything. I wonder if anybody uses them at all... (Or my search was wrong.)

That doesn't mean that bookmarks are not used. I suspect that it's probably a trivial feature for people to write about.

AlexL wrote:- As for bookmarks in general - the interesting thing is that before posting the original post I searched this sub-forum for bookmarks and did not find anything. I wonder if anybody uses them at all...

Although I use ExamDiffPro many times per work day, I usually go through the compared files top to bottom once - compared files are seldomly open in EDP for more than a minute - no need for bookmarks for me ...