On 1/30/06, Ori Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:55:14 +0100, Benedikt Meurer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > 3/ What do you think of implementing something like 'find as you type' > > > like in Firefox ? This could be very useful to quickly find a file or a > > > folder. > > > > The detailed list view already support this. ExoIconView/ThunarIconView > > support is on the way (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359). > > Personally, the biggest annoyance with Thunar is this support -- I think it > should at least search for substrings, if not match regexes. > > I think matching regexes would be the best option -- it can be treated as a > simple substring search, but it can also (surprise) handle searching by regex.
Edit->Select by Pattern, or Ctrl+S Or is this not sufficient? The only problem I have with find as you type as supported in detail view is that there isn't a way to show the next match. > > Often when looking for a file, I remember a part of the name, but this part > doesn't always start at the 0th character, so this would be a useful feature > for me. > > -- > I just got out of the hospital after a speed reading accident. > I hit a bookmark. > -- Steven Wright > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > Thunar-dev@xfce.org > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > -- Erik "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation." _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
