Re: Irritations and frustrations with improved(?) search functionality
Hi! Sorry for breaking the thread, but your initial post was eaten by my Bogofilter (was too long?)... The F9 menu gives a Find file option. It always used to be the case, but now that the history has been unified, it pre-fills the content field be default. http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2046 Subject to change. Behavior of content search within a file using / or F7 seems to me to have been seriously degraded from what for years used to just work. Assuming that you are talking about viewer, its forward search does wrap, but displays a dialog (Search done, continue from the beginning?) beforehand. Backwards search does not wrap, which might be considered as a bug. Open a ticket for that. This is not a new one. I have mentioned it before on this list but somehow it has not been fixed. Namely, the two options F7 and / in the good old days used to work separately, but now they work together. This is arguable. I haven't seen any viewer that explicitly maintains two separate search buffers for some weird reason (I guess this mc feature has not been documented either). The new behavior seems logical to me and is a welcome unification. So let me say that another thing I found very frustrating did get fixed in the release I am using. Namely, during several recent versions of MC the content search functions F7 and / were forgetting what one was searching for if one closed one file and opened another The magic mantra is Open and follow a Trac ticket and thine wish shall come true. Being more terse will also help a lot. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Irritations and frustrations with improved(?) search functionality
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 21:46 +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: Assuming that you are talking about viewer, its forward search does wrap, but displays a dialog (Search done, continue from the beginning?) beforehand. Backwards search does not wrap, which might be considered as a bug. Open a ticket for that. http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1917 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2091 -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: Irritations and frustrations with improved(?) search functionality
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 21:46 +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: Assuming that you are talking about viewer, its forward search does wrap, but displays a dialog (Search done, continue from the beginning?) beforehand. Backwards search does not wrap, which might be considered as a bug. Open a ticket for that. http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1917 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2091 Yuri, As I said, the problem is that forward search does not display the dialog which you say is supposed to pop up. It just wraps without any warning at all. This may be fixed in a more recent version than I am using, of course. As to wrapping the backward search, well, as I said in my other message, I do not think that is so terribly important. I would much rather have things fixed which I used to use and they quit working. Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
