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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Improved Find
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 15:36:34 -0400
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On Aug 3, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:07 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 involvi
> 
> Me too.  And its annoying.  Note that what you're doing here is just a simple
> search.  That's what you want most of the time, so it's worth incorporating
> it as a feature.  When using vim, do you do the above, or do you /whatever?

That’s not a simple search that you can do with /whatever. Select a specific subset of files, search, and sort results.

> 
>> ng 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!
> 
> I think no one is proposing changing the format, the question is whether some
> form of global search is worth having in gschem.

Simple, like /whatever, is fine. It’s when it becomes encumbered with too many “smarts” that it gets to be more confusing than it’s worth.

>  I would say definitely yes,
> provided its graceful enough that it can work for search or just navigation.
> 
> Britton
> 
> 

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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