I've finally found the time to fix up SearchBar - the powerful replacement for IDLE's feeble search capabilities. It supports all of the original search engine's features, a less intrusive interface, incremental searching (search-as-you-type), highlighting of all matches in the text and word completion in the find/replace entries.
I hope this is now almost ready for including in IDLE out-of-the-box. I've fixed all outstanding issues, cleaned up and optimized the code, and added comments and documentation where needed. This version should work with any 2.x version of Python from 2.3 onwards. I have tested with versions 2.3 through 2.6 on WindowsXP. I'd appreciate anyone who can give it a try and see how it works out, especially non-Windows users. *Installation:* (see the included README file) Unpack the attached archive, or download from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SearchBar/ Place the .py files in your Lib/idlelib directory, and add the following to the text file Lib\idlelib\config-extensions.def: [SearchBar] enable=1 is_incremental=1 [Searchbar_bindings] toggle-search-bar= Usage: Just search as usual. (When the extension is enabled it binds to the usual find/replace events.) - Enter, Control+f and Control+g all search for the next appearance - The Escape key closes the search bar, and so will clicking outside of it - Alt+/ completes words in the find and replace entries, press multiple times to cycle through possible completions - When replacing: Enter replaces and jumps to the next appearance, Shift+Enter jumps to the next appearance without replacing - Incremental searching can be toggled via the extension configuration On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 2:40 AM, Tal Einat <[email protected]> wrote: > Attached is a first working version of the SearchBar extension, with > incremental > search and word completion. > > What I need now is beta testers! Please take the 2 minutes it takes to > install this, and report and issues or comments. > (You can always disable the extension in config-extensions.def (enable=0), > and the good old dialogs will kick in.) > > * AFAIK this -should- work with all recent versions of IDLE (those shipped > with Python2.2 and above). > > Enjoy! > Comments et. al. much appreciated. > > - Tal > > > Usage: > Just search as usual. When the extension is enabled it binds to the usual > find/replace events. > To complete words in the find and replace entries: Alt+/ ("slash", on the > question mark key) > > Installation: > Place the attached files in your idlelib dir, > and add the following lines to config-extensions.def: > " > [SearchBar] > enable=1 > is_incremental=1 > [Searchbar_bindings] > toggle-search-bar= > " > > (yes, the last 2 lines are required) > > > On 12/8/06, Tal Einat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/7/06, Michael Foord < [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: >>> > My top items: >>> [snip] >>> >> > Incremental search (in a text entry widget in the bottom status bar). >>> > >>> >>> +1 million. :-) >>> >>> Not because I need it, but just because it's the best way. >> >> >> I've been working some on that too. I've created a Search Bar extension >> which can be used instead of the Find & Replace dialogs. The search bar >> shows a thin bar on the bottom of the window, with an entry box and the >> usual options (wrap, direction, case-sensitive...). For replacing, the bar >> is twice as thick, with two entries and extra replacement options (replace, >> find next, replace all). >> > >
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