Hans Salvisberg
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:50:02 -0700
Hi Brian, Brian Havard wrote: > This was a significant code change so it's quite likely I've broken > something along the way.
You seem to be in development mode again, so I'll dare to put this to your consideration: 1. Unicode support is really badly needed. This means using the wide APIs (and finally get rid of the problems with weird filename characters) and supporting UTF-8 and UTF-16 (LE/BE), all with and without BOM, in Search, Viewer, and Editor. 2. One feature that I keep wishing for again and again is the ability to pipe the standard output (and/or the error output) of a command into the Viewer, maybe with a meta command such as >! . Alt-F4 ought to work to enabling editing (and saving!) of the captured output, if desired. 3. The ability to panelize the search results, so they can be sorted, tagged, moved, copied, deleted, etc. 4. The ability to pause a search and to raise the search position out of hopeless directories. With ever larger disks, we have more and more directories that are so big that FC can get lost in them for extended periods of time, and I wish I could tell it to come out and continue searching where the sun shines. 5. A simple quick&dirty text printing function (10pt Courier, 80 chars per line, 50 lines per page) on the default printer. Having to fire up notepad is demeaning. 6. Lastly, a quirk that keeps bugging me: when you do Search, then View, you get the found text highlighted, but when you do Alt-F4 to change into the Editor (for example because you want to copy the lines surrounding the found position into the clipboard), you lose the selection (near the top) and the cursor appears at the bottom (!) of the window, so that you have to move it up the entire height of the page to get to the area of interest. This is an unlikely usability blunder in an otherwise so polished application. Thanks! Hans _______________________________________________ Fc mailing list Fc@silk.apana.org.au http://silk.apana.org.au/mailman/listinfo/fc Bug Tracker: http://bugs.silk.apana.org.au/