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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:55:01 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Find Text Mechanism
From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Edward Hennessy
(ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> I'd like to update the find text operation to support globs instead of just a substring search.
>
> Should the program support both globs and substring searches and have an additional checkbox in the find text window? Or, would users be fine with only the glob search?
>
> I'd like to only support globs from the angle that we don't get to many checkboxes in the UI. The drawback from only supporting globs, the '*' and '?' can't be escaped.

This could be problematic when searching for that R? refdes that you forgot
to set :)

Britton