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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Stephen R. van den Berg (srb AT cuci DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: > > For people which are not well versed in regexes, the current behaviour > (anchored regex) is simpler to understand. > So if you want to use it unanchored, it should be a configoption; then > again, you might as well type .* before and/or after it when you need that > type of behaviour. I partially agree: less experienced users may want to avoid regex. However, with the original implementation they can not: a search for R1.3|R1.4 will not find R1.3 and R1.4 but a lot more. What I believe a non-regex user really expects is that only character '|' should have special meaning. I believe the original solution fails to serve the casual users by surprising them with regex interpretation while it also may cause experienced users a headache figuring the forced anchoring. To overcome this problem I've changed the search dialog in pcb-rnd from a single-string prompt to a attribute dialog with 2 fields: a pattern (string) and a method (enum). Method is either regex or string list. Regex interprets the pattern as true regex without anchoring. String list splits the pattern at '|', strips whitepsace from words and uses strcasecmp() against each word. As a bonus, with an attribute dialog it was trivial to make the dialog remember the last string entered and the last method selected. Regards, Igor2
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