On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:01:28PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> Interesting. I didn't notice this search dialog before because its menu item
> was placed in the "File" menu, which is the wrong place for a find command
> (Which should be in an "Edit" or "Search" menu). I believe others have missed
> it as well. Also, it is possible it wasn't available when I wrote the
> preliminary version of the patch back in March.
>
> Aside from that my search dialog has some advantages:
>
> 1. Full text search - if you search for "available" in File->Search you won't
> find anything. Searching for it in Edit->Find will find many things. I think
> File->Search only searches using the identifiers or at most also the title.
>
> 2. Regular expression search.
>
> 3. Displaying the results in a tree, with their context.
>
> All that said, I don't mind merging my modifications into the existing code,
> or replacing it entirely.
Please merge the best of the existing and the new search dialog.
I would prefer it as separate smaller steps.
So one patch where you move the dialog and another where you improve
the search dialog.
Sam
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