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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Improved Find
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On Aug 2, 2015, at 6:15 PM, 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 find was somehow able to find everything in the dir at
> least, at least as an option.  Lots of editors fail at this and its annoying.

I often find myself typing things like “cat Video.*.sch | grep refdes=C | sort” to a shell. There are probably a thousand such useful shell one-liners involving grep, cat, sort, wc, and uniq on geda-gaf files. A million if you throw in sed and awk. Hurray for a simple file format!

You really can’t match this in a GUI, except by the trivial expedient of feeding a line to a shell, but why clutter your GUI with that when a terminal window is available? Keep the GUI stuff simple and crude. It is important to avoid wasting the users’ time. Plowing through a complex interface in order to discover that it can’t do what you need is infuriating. Retain the capability to do fancy stuff from a terminal.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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