On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:49:28PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 14.03.2017 17:30, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > >> The regex matcher should give you good results for "^R". > > > I think people would be opposed to using regexes in the footprint > > filters. I like having them in some places as an option, but they're > > complicated for people who aren't programmers, and I don't want to use > > the combined matcher for footprint filters because I'd like to reduce > > false positives here (as a long match list is unwieldy). > > Ideally we'd have the same search behaviour in all search boxes, > although I see that part selection is different from footprint selection > because the use case "same part number, different vendor prefix" doesn't > come up. Same behaviour is less surprising though.
To be fair...the footprint filter list isn't really a search box. > > We could give priority to results anchored on the left side, as well as > based on the left of the match in any case. This does work. In fact the component selector already does this - earlier matches score higher, and matches are sorted by score. Maybe I'll try that out and see how it works for footprints. > > Simon > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp