Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-04 Thread Alexandro Colorado
There are some filters done on ruby that will allow you to do this but I think is still on a per file basis. You might want to check it out for updates: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7236 -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Quoting Claude Needha

Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Claude Needham wrote: It would be very handy to have a search feature that could work across many files. For example searching a folder of documents for any document containing a phrase. [snip] I've recently requested an upgrade to "Copernic" and received an encouraging response. Peter HB --

Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
Shoshannah Forbes wrote: I can't vouch for Linux, but I imagine similar functionality might exist there, too There seems to be something along those lines for OSX tiger (I haven't upgraded yet, so I don't know how well this works in practice): http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=News&fi

Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-03 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On 04/05/2005, at 00:56, Steve Kopischke wrote: I think that might be a better feature at the operating system level, rather than in an application suite - I'd rather be able to search across *all* files, not just OOo. For example, WinXP Pro found a phrase I just searched in a couple of ODT docu

Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-03 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:47, Claude Needham wrote: > It would be very handy to have a search feature that could work across > many files. For example searching a folder of documents for any > document containing a phrase. You may like to check out IannzFindFiles available from: http://homepages.pa

Re: [discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Kopischke
I think that might be a better feature at the operating system level, rather than in an application suite - I'd rather be able to search across *all* files, not just OOo. For example, WinXP Pro found a phrase I just searched in a couple of ODT documents I recently created, using the Search feat

[discuss] Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-03 Thread Claude Needham
It would be very handy to have a search feature that could work across many files. For example searching a folder of documents for any document containing a phrase. The motivation for the request comes from being a very prolific fiction writer. Sometimes I would need to extract something from the