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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Improved Find
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Edward Hennessy
(ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice if the results could be shown in tree form.  Often you're
>> looking for a particular instance or two and don't want to visit them all.
>> Position in the tree is a useful and easy criteria when you go to mentally
>> prune the search results.  In practice as long as the file name is there
>> that's almost as good, I'm not sure if knowing tree position is worth the
>> extra effort or not.
>
> The tree form is a good idea. Would you mind adding a description to defect #698793 in Launchpad?

I don't know, in thinking it over I recall issue others raise that it's
actually possibly a DAG so tree view could be a misleading or else redundant
representation.  Not sure there's anything to be done about that with the
standard Gtk widgets, and DAG views are ugly at best compared to flat lists
anyway.  Discretion might be the better part of valor here.  Users probably
have subcirc hierarchy positions pretty well memorized anyway so filename
is enough.

Britton